Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:42:05 -0600 (CST) From: Nathan Whitehorn <nathanw@uchicago.edu> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No X server on Alpha? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.62.0801190940040.7991@harper.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.PMDF.4.44L.0801161201480.1099-100000@local.admin.athabascau.ca> References: <Pine.PMDF.4.44L.0801161201480.1099-100000@local.admin.athabascau.ca>
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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
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