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Date:      Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:23:46 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
To:        Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Jack Wathey <wathey@salk.edu>
Subject:   Re: Status of XFree86 on Alpha?
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.10.9909271317510.2333-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909271010160.88591-100000@eccles.salk.edu>

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On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Tom Bartol wrote:

# Problems/Observations:
# 
# 1) We could "make" XFree86 but a "make install" failed due to a missing
# /usr/include/sys/pci_ioctl.h.  We noticed that patch-4 for for
# /usr/port/x11/XFree86 includes a patch to "#include <sys/pci_ioctl.h>"  
# however this file does not exist in /usr/include/sys on our system.  
# "make world" in /usr/src does not install this file. We found the file in
# /usr/src/sys/pci and copied it by hand to /usr/include/sys.  After this a
# "make install" for XFree86 succeeded.  FreeBSD for Intel does not have
# this file in /usr/include/sys and XFree86 does not require it on Intel.

Hmm... I'll look into this tonight.  I'm pretty sure I did a
'make -DCLOBBER world' last time, but maybe I didn't.

# 2) SuperProbe segfaults.  gdb doesn't like the core file so we have no
# clue about the problem here.

This is a known problem.  Just a matter of porting the VGA16
server to FreeBSD/Alpha.  Any volunteers? :)

# 3) We configured X to run the X_SVGA server for our Matrox Millenium II.
# The server starts up fine but some windows are filled with black and
# menus pop up empty until you run the mouse cursor over the locations where
# the text should be.

This one is new to me.  I don't have a head on my Alpha box
at home, but it sounds like I need free up a monitor so I can
look into this and a couple of other problems I've been seeing.

# Can anyone tell us if this is normal for the current status of XFree86 for
# FreeBSD-current on the Alpha.  I scanned the freebsd-alpha mail archive
# but could glean any insights into this matter.  Is there some miss
# configuration on our system causing pci_ioctl.h to be skipped during a
# "make world"?  Should we be using a different brand of video card?

This could be caused by bogus definitions in pci_ioctl.h.  Give
me some time later tonight and I'll see what I can do about getting
the port to build without pci_ioctl.h.

-steve

# Thanks for your help,
# 
# Tom



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