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Re: XFree86 4.0.3-0pre1v1 available for testing on powerpc & sparc



On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 11:18:21AM +0100, Dave Love wrote:
> Should this work with a Mach64 card on an UltraSPARC?  If so, how?  It
> doesn't offer that as an option when configuring.

Nope.  My own SPARC is just such a machine.  I tried 4.0.3-0pre1v1.  It
locked my box up tight.

My advice?  Don't try it.

(The "fbdev" driver might work, but now I'm a bit gunshy.)

> Ben Collins said to use the v3 mach64 packages, but I couldn't find a
> consistent set of testing packages to allow that and I can't with this
> effort either.  I can go through it again and provide details if it
> helps.

If you have stable as well as unstable (or the XSF repository) in your apt
repository, you should be able to just:

apt-get install xserver-mach64 xserver-common-v3

You'll need to manually point /etc/X11/X to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach64.

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