Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 19:16:58 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: mgessner@aristar.com (Matthew A. Gessner) Subject: Re: Installation - SYSVSHM required for X??? Message-ID: <19970809191658.WW30693@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199707181438.KAA20593@ns.newreach.net>; from Matthew A. Gessner on Jul 18, 1997 10:49:29 -0400 References: <199707181438.KAA20593@ns.newreach.net>
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As Matthew A. Gessner wrote: > Why would the X servers (XF86_SVGA) give me a lot of grief > about not being able to do SYSVSHM? It's not in GENERIC, but it is > in LINT. It's in GENERIC now, too. > Do I need to rebuild the kernel to support X??? No. It is purely optional for XFree86, since the Xservers detect the absence of SYSVSHM at startup time (as you have seen from the debug output), and simply disable the MIT-SHM extension (which is only used by few programs anyway). For Accelerated-X, it is mandatory however. > I had X under 2.1.5-RELEASE running just fine SYSVSHM was default in the generic kernel of FreeBSD 2.1.x. The person who made it the default there did so only for this branch however, that's why it has never been propagated into -current until very recently. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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