Subject: Re: 2.0.2 X server crashes with -current kernel
To: None <netbsd@sopwith.solgatos.com>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 09/06/2005 00:03:57
In message <200509060355.DAA28741@sopwith.solgatos.com>, Dieter writes:
>AMD64 system
>ATI Rage XL video chip
>-current kernel
>2.0.2 userland
>
>With the standard 2.0.2 kernel, "XFree86 -configure" ran and
>generated an X11 config file.
>
>Now with a -current kernel (GENERIC config file) it seg faults.
>(Various other command line args also seg fault.)
>Kernel config file contains
> options COMPAT_20 # NetBSD 2.0,
>I haven't noticed any other 2.0.2 userland programs seg faulting.
>
>Thus far, attempts to build a -current XFree86 server have failed.
>I have extracted the x11.tar.gz file and set export MKX11=yes,
>but get ERROR: X11SRCDIR.xc `/usr/xsrc/xfree/xc' does not exist.
>Of course trying to run make in the Xserver directory doesn't
>work either. Trying nbmake includes, obj, or dependall as suggested in
>the "compiling only a part of src (e.g. bootfloppies :)" thread last
>month didn't work either.
>
Have you installed /usr/xsrc also?
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb