Re: Help with XFree86 V4.10 and Voodoo3
Yeah, I had this problem myself until a helpful soul pointed me to:
http://v.favrenicolin.free.fr/linuxppc/linuxppc-tdfx.php3
Unfortunately, the patch I got from here only works on the sources listed. At
least, I haven't figured out how to patch any other kernel...
HTH
Russell
PS I can also send you my XF86Config-4 file, separately, if anyone thinks it
might be useful...
On Saturday 07 July 2001 17:07, Anthony Lau wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a StarMax 4000 with a 604e. I am trying to XFree to work with
> a PCI Voodoo3.
> I am running Debian 2.2r3 testing with a 2.2.19 kernel patched with a
> Ani Joshi's tdfx patch.
>
> I have good experience with Debian on X86, but am new to PPC.
>
> I grabbed the source of XFree v.4.1 from an www.xfree.org mirror
> site. It compiled fine, installed fine and seemed to be setupped
> fine. However startx fails and the log file gives a very cryptic
> error message:
>
> (==) TDFX(0): RGB weight 888
> (==) TDFX(0): Default visual is TrueColor
> (--) TDFX(0): Chipset: "3dfx Voodoo3"
> (--) TDFX(0): Linear framebuffer at 0x90000000
> (--) TDFX(0): MMIO registers at addr 0x82000000
> (--) TDFX(0): PIO registers at addr 0x400
> got here
> count, here 1
>
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11. Server aborting
>
>
> My guess is that I have not properly setup the XF86Config file for PPC.
>
> I have attached my XF86Config-4 and the log file.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Anthony Lau
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