On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 00:05:48 +0000, Matt Dainty wrote:

> > Krups would need to use a normal XFree86 server, not Xsun.  But the
> > Krups video card (IGA 1682) is not supported in XFree.  svga server
> > might have a chance of working, now that X11 is cross-buildable
> > someone can try that.  I really don't have time for this,
> > unfortunately.
> 
> On an idle Sunday evening, I've just tried to do this.
> 
> The full crossbuild appears to have worked, (there appears to be a small
> problem building the sets, but no matter), but I appear to only have the
> usual array of XSun* servers, as I'm guessing there's some magic tucked
> away that says on a 32-bit Sparc, there's no need for anything PCI
> related.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea how I might proceed? I'm a bit confused as to
> where to start looking. I was planning on trying the VESA driver, I
> guessed that's what the suggestion was, although I'm not sure how
> x86-centric that is.


You'd start by editing x11/Xserver/Makefile.common and adding
${MACHINE} == "sparc" to the list of machines for which we set

XSERVER_XFREE86=        yes

This will make sparc x11 crossbuild build XFree86 server.


Then the fun part begins ;).

SY, Uwe
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