From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id JAA44049 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 09:54:57 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id JAA85799 for linux-list; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 09:53:06 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id JAA53770 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 09:53:05 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (adisaacs@mtu.edu) Received: from news.mtu.edu (news.mtu.edu [141.219.70.11]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id JAA09627 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 09:53:03 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (adisaacs@mtu.edu) Received: from mtu.edu (root@mtu.edu [141.219.70.1]) by news.mtu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA02763 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 12:53:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wiley.sas.it.mtu.edu (wiley.sas.it.mtu.edu [141.219.36.70]) by mtu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26888 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 12:53:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from adisaacs@localhost) by wiley.sas.it.mtu.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7/mturelay-1.2) id MAA20974 for linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 12:52:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 12:52:54 -0400 From: Andrew Isaacson To: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: Resources in X11 port Message-ID: <19990413125254.A20170@mtu.edu> References: <199904130857.OAA23664@bhairavi.newdelhi.sgi.com> <19990413122357.A16312@ruvild.bun.falkenberg.se> <371371D7.A8187D38@hol.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <371371D7.A8187D38@hol.gr>; from Theodoros Nikitopoulos on Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 07:33:28PM +0300 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 48 01 21 E2 D4 E4 68 D1 B8 DF 39 B2 AF A3 16 B9 X-PGP-Key-URL: http://www.csl.mtu.edu/~adisaacs/pgp.txt Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 07:33:28PM +0300, Theodoros Nikitopoulos wrote: > Hello there, > > I've just setup a web page containing helpfull resources I found in > the net, in concern of the X11 Linux/SGI port. Maybe you know about > it but well just in case.. :-) > > Although an X11 port seems at first sight quite difficult--in case > someone has a valuable ammount of information about--it seems > to be quiete easy. > > Unfortunately, I cannot personally offer any other help in due of a > project I have to work during the period April-June at INRIA. But > in any case drop me an e-mail for any progress ! I would be glad > to hear about it :-) > > The page is located at : http://users.hol.gr/~tnik/X11/ Interesting page. However, I would suggest that anybody who plans to tackle porting XFree86 to Linux/SGI should contact xfree86@xfree86.org and ask to become an XFree86 developer. There are several resources which are available only to developers, including mailing list archives and the 4.0 development tree, which will likely prove invaluable to anyone attempting a port. If you (the porters) are willing to wait until June to have publicly distributable code, you should develop for the 4.0 branch rather than the 3.3 branch. There are a lot of useful new features in the new code base, and the new design is quite a bit easier to code for than the old. Also, Theodoros, I'm curious why you recommend starting with a 6.3 tree and patching up to XFree86 3.3.3. Why not just grab the 3.3.3.1 source tarballs and be done with it? -andy -- Andy Isaacson adisaacs@mtu.edu adi@acm.org Fight Spam, join CAUCE: http://www.csl.mtu.edu/~adisaacs/ http://www.cauce.org/