This updated package will fix XFree86 running on the alpha (perhaps also
other non-ix86 platforms --> just change the "%ifarch alpha" into
"%ifnarch %ix86") with MGA hardware. Take a look at this e-mail from Jay
Estabrook below.
http://d10179.dtk.chello.nl/build/fixes/cooker/XFree86-4.0.2-2mdk.src.rpm
http://d10179.dtk.chello.nl/build/fixes/cooker/XFree86-4.spec
http://d10179.dtk.chello.nl/build/fixes/cooker/XFree86-4.spec.diff
http://d10179.dtk.chello.nl/build/fixes/cooker/XFree86-4.spec.orig
Can this fix please be included in the next release (the only thing
touched was the .spec file)?
Stefan
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Subject: Re: XFree-4.0.2 & mga & alpha
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 10:22:46 -0500
From: Jay Estabrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
References: 1 , 2
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 10:49:41PM -0500, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:
>
> On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Stefan van der Eijk wrote:
>
> > The alpha (miata) has a 4Mb Matrox Millienium II card in it... The
> > problem probably lies in the mga_drv.o module (see the error messages
> > below):
> >
> > Any idea's?
>
> Check to see if the modules are stripped. For some reason, I have had
> nothing but problems when trying to use modules that are stripped on
> Alpha. I haven't yet had time to see why this happens, but the
> "unresolved symbol" problems go away if the modules are unstripped (at
> least for the two cards that I've tried...s3virge and tdfx).
Been there, done that... ;-}
The problem is that the Matrox HAL was enabled by default at a very late
date, and not tested on Alpha, if that's even possible. The HAL is,
IIRC,
a low-level library between the server and the card that Matrox wants to
supply, and it may be in binary only at the moment, source later.
So, IIRC, the patch for the build was to put:
#define UseMatroxHal NO
in the host.def file before starting the build.
The only thing affected, again AFAIK, would be the mga_drv.o.
Good luck.
--Jay++
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