Re: Xfree86 broken in 5.0-rc2 binary sets?

[Andrew Randrianasulu <randrik_a%yahoo.com@localhost>]

--- On Thu, 2/19/09, Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:

> From: Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>
> Subject: Re: Xfree86 broken in 5.0-rc2 binary sets?
> To: "Andrew Randrianasulu" <randrik_a%yahoo.com@localhost>
> Cc: port-sgimips%netbsd.org@localhost
> Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 1:55 AM
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> Hello,
> 
> On Feb 18, 2009, at 8:46 PM, Andrew Randrianasulu wrote:
> 
> > Hello!
> > 
> > I have netbsd-5/sgimips as completely network-based
> install: tftpd for booting kernel, NFS for root fs. It works
> fine on my sgi o2. But Xfree give me error  at X -configure
> stage:
> > 
> > -----
> > (II) Loading
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/libwsfb_drv.so I am at
> 0x4829b4
> > dlopen: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/libwsfb_drv.so:
> Undefined symbol "shadowU
> > pdatePacked" (symnum = 47)
> > (EE) Failed to load
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/libwsfb_drv.so
> > (II) UnloadModule: "libwsfb"
> > (EE) Failed to load module "libwsfb" (loader
> failed, 7)
> > -----
> > and
> > 
> > No devices to configure.  Configuration failed.
> 
> Known problem, the MIPS-specific module loader in XFree86
> is quite broken. It works in Xorg though. Also, wsfb on
> crmfb doesn't currently work anyway - wsfb expects a
> linear framebuffer which crmfb does not provide - it uses
> CRIME's native tiled format. You can use experimental X
> binaries from
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/macallan/sgimips/
> which provide quite a bit of hardware acceleration (
> including xrender ) but still have some glitches. So far I
> didn't get around to fix that properly.

Yes, crime_drv.so works, with some bugs. (for example using gimp's screenshot 
function caused whole X to freeze). I want to help you with this
driver, but  probably i need more recent kernel and (native) Xorg first? 
Compiling this will take some time even on my x86 box .... And for some reason 
i still don't have internet access under NetBSD. I can netboot, of course, 
/etc/hosts was edited with correct hostname (before all X programs were very 
slow at startup), i have correct IP address (192.168.1.3), resolv.conf with one 
entry "nameserver 192.168.1.1" and default route to  
192.168.1.1 (my router). But i can't ping neither router, nor outside network. 
Strange, but Irix with same settings can reach Internet (and cause my router to 
freeze (!) after some Netscape activity ... router = small box labeled 
"WBR-3405TX", from LevelOne. May be just broken hardware inside it. Very easy 
to freeze, and no way to reconfigure after this, only full reset.)
> 
> have fun
> Michael
> 
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