Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 22:39:08 -0800 (PST) From: Rhett Monteg Hollander <victorysoldier@yahoo.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape 4.76 & MGA DRI Message-ID: <20030211063908.87340.qmail@web40303.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3E48957C.5E712588@alasir.com>
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Scott Long wrote: > > Rhett Monteg Hollander wrote: > > > Hello gentlemen, > > > > several days ago I've installed 5.0-RELEASE onto one > > of my machines, which already carried 4.7-RC1. To > > avoid possible compatibility problems, I did a clean > > install onto another hard drive, and later recompiled > > everything. Here I have a couple of annoying issues. > > > > Shell refuses to start Netscape Communicator 4.76 (for > > FreeBSD) saying "binary file is not executable", but > > it was (and is) running fine under 4.7. Since it was > > compiled under FreeBSD 2.2.x, I have compat22 > > installed (together with compat3x and compat4x). No > > help. > > Recompile your kernel with COMPAT_AOUT, or load the aout.ko kernel module. Floating exception (core dumped), ~2 megs > > > > > Second issue comes to be about hardware-accelerated > > OpenGL under XFree86 4.2.0, using Matrox G400 > > hardware. Simply, there is no hardware acceleration at > > all. DRM kernel modules that come with 4.2.0 are > > intended for use with FreeBSD 4.x, and they don't even > > compile under 5.x. I built kernel with "device mgadrm" > > and "options DRM_LINUX", as well as "options > > COMPAT_LINUX". After launching glxgears system hangs > > up completely. Problem seems to be within libdrm. So > > far I have no DRI, but software OpenGL, and 162fps > > compared to 368fps under 4.7. > > FreeBSD 5.0 comes with the DRM kernel modules in the base system, as it > looks like you discovered. Can you enable a serial console and capture > the crash? Fixed. Problem was in XF86Config, which was set up improperly. Not sure what exactly led to that point, because I've overwritten it with a substitute from 4.7. Now glxgears run fine, at 357fps; interesting, I supposed 5.0 to be faster than 4.7 in this case, at least in honour of gcc-3.2.1 > > Scott > > > > > --- > > Regards, > > Rhett > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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