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.