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Date:      Tue, 21 Aug 2001 21:08:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: XFree86-4 and alpha DS10
Message-ID:  <15235.1551.56300.544975@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <0108211748400B.25171@snoopy>
References:  <0108211748400B.25171@snoopy>

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Jim Pirzyk writes:
 > So does anyone have XFree86-4.1.0 working on an alpha system?
 > I have tried it on both 4.3-RELEASE and 5.0-CURRENT and on the
 > 4.3 system it hangs the system.  On Current, it sits there for
 > a long time (5 minutes) trying to load the ati drivers and then 
 > errors out with saying:
 > 
 > _LoaderFileToMem() read() failed: File too large
 > 
 > XFree86 4.1.0 is compiled from the ports tree on this system.
 > 

Yes, I'm using a UP1000 with an AGP Elsa Gloria Synergy as my primary
desktop:

<9:01pm>thunder/gallatin:~>uname -srm
FreeBSD 4.4-PRERELEASE alpha
<9:01pm>thunder/gallatin:~>xdpyinfo | grep 'XFree86 version'
XFree86 version: 4.1.0

Its been rock-solid.

You might try putting CPUTYPE=ev56 in /etc/make.conf -- gcc tends to
generate less buggy code when it can use the byte/word instructions
that appeared with the ev56.

I built a package (with CPUTYPE=ev56) for XFree86 and left it at
http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin/XFree86-4.1.0_4.tgz
quite a while ago.

Drew



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