From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 19 20:10:55 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4846016A417 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:10:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47B1113C442 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:10:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from zion.baldwin.cx (66-23-211-162.clients.speedfactory.net [66.23.211.162]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC7B71A4D80; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:50:14 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:39:57 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801191439.57407.jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Subject: Re: No X server on Alpha? X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:10:55 -0000 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