Re: XFree86 4.0 working as fbdev on Voodoo3

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Re: XFree86 4.0 working as fbdev on Voodoo3

From: Michel D?nzer <hidden>
Date: 2000-03-28 16:00:43

--- "William H. Schultz" <whschult@uncc.edu> wrote:
I don't know if it's because I moved my existing /usr/X11R6
directory before installing, but XFree86 v4 finally works on
my Voodoo3.  Granted, it is incredibly slow (slower than
v3.3.6), but at least it works--for now.
Doesn't the tdfx driver work?

The major problem that I'm having is that the keyboard isn't
mapped properly.  The mouse works, so I can logout when I
use startx, but I can't log in if I use gdm (or xdm for that
matter).  I can't do a ctrl-alt-del to kill the X-Server
either, as it isn't recognizing the keys properly.
The Xkb extension doesn't work on PPC yet (a fix by Kostas is on the way :).

Add Option "XkbDisable" to the Keyboard Section.


Michel


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Re: XFree86 4.0 working as fbdev on Voodoo3

From: Kostas Gewrgiou <hidden>
Date: 2000-03-28 16:33:46

On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Michel D?nzer wrote:
quoted hunk
--- "William H. Schultz" <whschult@uncc.edu> wrote:
quoted
I don't know if it's because I moved my existing /usr/X11R6
directory before installing, but XFree86 v4 finally works on
my Voodoo3.  Granted, it is incredibly slow (slower than
v3.3.6), but at least it works--for now.
Doesn't the tdfx driver work?
  Beyond endianess problems the tdfx driver uses PIO which isn't
working under ppc right now (and unless the kernel people decide
on a way to export iobase to userland some time soon PIO might
take a while until it gets supported)
quoted
The major problem that I'm having is that the keyboard isn't
mapped properly.  The mouse works, so I can logout when I
use startx, but I can't log in if I use gdm (or xdm for that
matter).  I can't do a ctrl-alt-del to kill the X-Server
either, as it isn't recognizing the keys properly.
The Xkb extension doesn't work on PPC yet (a fix by Kostas is on the way :).

Add Option "XkbDisable" to the Keyboard Section.
The default xkb rules were missing mac info, you can get the patch from
http://entropy.crashing.org/~howarth/XFree86_v4.0/SOURCES/XFree86-4.0-keysym.patch
which fixes that and also cleans up the macintosh symbols a bit

  Kostas


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