On Fri 29 Oct, Mark Brinicombe wrote:
>   For those of you who want to play I have put a new S3V xserver for CATS
> running -current on line. This was built from the xsrc at the w/e. The
> patches to the xsrc tree required to build this are also online for those
> of you who want to build you own X sets. The patch is quite small but
> still needs some work before I can intergrate it into the standard tree
> (uses different I/O ranges than the shark).

I haven't had any joy getting it to work, either with an existing X
installation or with a clean build of xsrc (I'm running a 1.4M kernel
compiled from -current last night). The XF86_S3V server doesn't seem to
like the XF86Config files produced by xf86config:

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Using pcvt driver (version 3.32)
XF86Config: /etc/XF86Config
(**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values

Config Error: /etc/XF86Config:197

    Xkbkeycodes "xfree86"
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^
Keyboard section keyword expected
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
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Commenting out the lines it is offended by gives:

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checkMapInfo: warning: failed to get map info for region 3
	(Inappropriate ioctl for device)
(--) checkDevMem: warning: failed to open /dev/mem (Operation not permitted)
	linear framebuffer access unavailable

Fatal server error:
xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to open mem device or map IO base. 
Make sure you have the Aperture Driver installed, or a kernel built with the INSECURE option
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Do I need to do something like link /dev/ttyv* to /dev/ttyE* (doing so
doesn't help)?

Could someone send me their working XF86Config file?

-- 
Dr. Stephen Borrill