Subject: Re: O2 R5000 & NetBSD (Current)
To: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
From: Ole Andre Rodlie <olear@slackforge.net>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 09/17/2007 03:20:47
> The driver isn't broken, XFree's loader for sgimips is.
> You need to load wsfb's dependencies by hand, using something like this:
>      Load        "fb"
>      Load        "shadow"
> in your XF86Config's "Module" section.
> That should take care of the missing symbols.
> You can find mine here:
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/macallan/sgimips/XF86Config.sgimips
Ok, thanks for the config. X started, but froze with four images of
the terminal (http://olear.slackforge.net/o2/xerror.png). No error
messages or log.

> There's one caveat though - gtk2 applications will dump core due to a
> bug in Cairo - it can't cope with the O2's RGBA pixel format for some
> reason, a bug report has been filed but there is no solution yet.
> Other things like windowmaker, KDE etc. work fine.

No problem :)

Ole Andre