Subject: Re: getting X11 on the 9500
To: David P. Reese Jr. <daver@gomerbud.com>
From: Markus W Kilbinger <kilbi@rad.rwth-aachen.de>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/09/2004 14:09:55
>>>>> "David" == David P Reese <daver@gomerbud.com> writes:

    >> > Fatal server error:
    >> > xf86MapVidMem: could not mmap screen [s=10000,a=a0000] (Invalid argument)

    David> Sorry James, different issue...

    David> The vgahw module for XFree86 is rather i386 specific and
    David> expects to find the VGA memory window at 0xA0000.
    David> OpenFirmware remaps this to a different location. Someone
    David> needs to teach the vgahw module to find the remapped
    David> address. This is needed for a number of cards including
    David> tdfx.

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.