Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: getting X11 on the 9500
To: None <port-macppc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: James Bilotto <jb13@gomerbud.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/10/2004 02:32:11
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 02:10:30AM -0800, James Bilotto wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 03:09:46PM +0000, Andreas Drewke wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 March 2004 13:09, you wrote:
> > > A native xsrc compilation on/for macppc yields a working XFree86 (and
> > > modules) on my tibook (at least last time, about 1 week ago). Is there
> > > a difference between xsrc and src/x11 (cross) compilation, then!?
> > >
> > > Markus.
> > 
> > This is interessting, because yesterday night I compiled the yesterdays
> > current xsrc (4.4.0) on my 7300 and I got the same message (map error) when I
> > tried to run it this morning...
> > 
> > compiling using src/x11 didn't worked at all. XMacPPC was build too and
> > worked ...
> > 
> > Maybe this is a issue with older macs ???? What is the real problem?
> 
> new world macs mostly have ati & nvidia cards witch don't use vgahw.
> i have two ati cards that work fine in my older macs.

so now i read in someone elses post that their radeon does use vgahw,
i don't know, maybe mine do too. all i know is that my ati cards work,
but my voodoo3, tt3d, and i128 don't.