Re: XFree 3.6 and PReP
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 09:17:56PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 01:08:50AM +0200, Georg Sauthoff wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > for my s3 video card I need XFree 3.6 because XFree >= 4 hasn't support for
> > it.
> >
> > Ok, so I did this under Debian Woody (computer: Motorala Powerstack 300 MHz):
> > ppc:~# apt-get -s install xserver-s3
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > Package xserver-s3 has no available version, but exists in the database.
> > This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
> > never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
> > of sources.list
> > However the following packages replace it:
> > xserver-common
> > E: Package xserver-s3 has no installation candidate
> >
> > Well, ...
> >
> > Is there no ppc binary package of xserver-s3 available? What is the reason of
> > missing XFree 3.6 support under PPC?
> >
> > Or is just my configuration broken?
> >
> > What is the Debian-way to get XFree 3.6 on this Box?
>
> I don't _believe_ that S3/XFree worked on PPC ever. What I would
> suggest is that you pick up a PCI-based Matrox Millenium 1 (_some_
> versions of PPCBUG support this, I believe), run a framebuffer on that,
> and run an Xserver over that.
Hmmm, once upon a time, I used XFree (can't remember which version) with
an S3 Trio in a PMC module on an MVME2600.
The only serious problem was the initizalition of the hardware at boot
time, that's why I wrote a bootloader which includes a BIOS ROM emulator.
Gabriel
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