Subject: Re: first cut on xfree86-4.6.0
To: None <tech-x11@netbsd.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
List: tech-x11
Date: 11/27/2006 13:25:53
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 05:23:02PM +0100, Matthias Drochner wrote:
> -I didn't bother to merge in local changes yet. Also I didn't
> check for new things to pull in.
That needs to be done obviously. NetBSD-sparc64 might break otherweise.
> -Xnest doesn't link. It seems to need some xfree86 specific
> libraries, but as I understand it, Xnest should be hardware
> independant, so there might be a misconfiguration elsewhere.
"xf86*" libraries are not necessarily that hardware dependant. Their
DGA library e.g. just provides direct framebuffer memory access. And
that can also be made work with a virtual framebuffer.
Kind regards
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Matthias Scheler http://zhadum.org.uk/