Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:39:57 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No X server on Alpha? Message-ID: <200801191439.57407.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.62.0801190940040.7991@harper.uchicago.edu> References: <Pine.PMDF.4.44L.0801161201480.1099-100000@local.admin.athabascau.ca> <Pine.GSO.4.62.0801190940040.7991@harper.uchicago.edu>
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On Saturday 19 January 2008 10:42:05 am Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Richard Loken wrote: > > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > >>> Does anyone know why xorg-server is marked not for alpha? > >> > >> no, but gcc42 is also marked not for alpha, but builds fine on my ds10l. > >> > >> Perhaps you could comment this line and give it a try. > > > > I agree, force the port to install. And, by the way, most alphas run with > > serial terminals but not all. I am running X on my PC164 and it works > > just fine but my card choices were limited and I found I needed an SVGA > > card with LOTS of on board memory to do what could be done with any junky > > S3 card when running Linux on Intel. > > After forcing xorg-server to link -lio, everyone works perfectly. I even > have Firefox (1.5) and pidgin running without issue. And with the recent > patches to busdma for the pyxis bug, my machine no longer has machine > checks every ten minutes and is completely stable. > -Nathan Oh, good, thanks for testing it. Are you able to enable DMA with ATA devices now? -- John Baldwin
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