Re: XFree 4.1

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk>]

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 12:45:55 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:31:45 +0100, Richard Zidlicky wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 09:04:35PM +0100, Gerhard Tubl wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > Well I read much stuff about xfree and it helps me a lot to get it run, but
> > > not really.
> > > When it starts it works fine (yes I have really installed KDE2 wow, real
> > > slow, but it works..)
> > > 
> > > I also read bout the problems on the xfree server 4.0 with the "Caught
> > > signal 11.  Server aborting" problem. And there is my problem:
> > > 
> > > I have an A4000 with Cyberstorm MKII 68060 50MHz about 50MByte RAM and the
> > > scsi module. The graphic card I used is the Retina Z3.
> > > I also installed woody, and set up xfree from woody (config file see
> > > attachment)
> > 
> > module loading is still broken on 68060, missing cacheflush somewhere.
> > Untill this can be fixed use the statically linked version of the
> > X server which should be in the debuggibg package.
> 
> If somecan can provide a user level mechanism of flushing the cache
> on 060 then I'll add it to the XFree86 CVS.
> 
> It's already done on Alpha and PPC machines, so the place at which this
> should be done is already in place.

Actually, I can find out to flush the icache with some asm, but it's
a user level mechanism for detecting 030, 040 or 060 to select the
method of flusing the icache which is needed.

Alan.