From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 11 17:25: 8 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8387F37B401 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 17:25:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-relay.omnis.com (smtp-relay.omnis.com [216.239.128.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5F4243F85 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 17:25:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from salty.rapid.stbernard.com (corp-2.ipinc.com [199.245.188.2]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18EC8439DC; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 17:17:32 -0800 (PST) From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr.com To: Matthew Dillon , Julian Elischer Subject: Re: Got X working with via driver ( Re: Another EPIA M 9000 update ) results (was Re: Lower power SMP boxes?)) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 17:17:30 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: Matthew Emmerton , hackers@freebsd.org References: <200302110157.h1B1v0TZ027206@apollo.backplane.com> In-Reply-To: <200302110157.h1B1v0TZ027206@apollo.backplane.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302111717.30999.wes@softweyr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 10 February 2003 17:57, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Very nasty but I got X working with the via driver by dummying up > libddmpeg (which is supplied along with via_drv.o on the VIA EPIA M 9000 > CD). Basically I linked libddmpeg.a with a dummy program to pull in the > required symbols and generated a new .so which does not link against > libc.so.6. > > With the dummied up libdmpeg.so in place the VIA-supplied driver > works. It complains a bit, but it works. > > http://apollo.backplane.com/FreeBSD/ > > I'll keep the page up unless VIA complains to me. I don't know why > they would, though. How dare you sell our products for us! Stop it this instant! I certainly hope they're not that stupid. I'm going to get a couple of these as test machines in our lab. Thanks for going the extra mile on this (as always) Matt. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message