Re: XFree86 4.0 working as fbdev on Voodoo3

Re: XFree86 4.0 working as fbdev on Voodoo3

[Michel D?nzer]

--- "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

[Kostas Gewrgiou]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Michel D?nzer wrote:

>
> --- "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?
>

  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)

>
> > 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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Re: XFree86 4.0 working as fbdev on Voodoo3

[Kostas Gewrgiou]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote:

>
> > > 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)
>
> Can't we use the MMIO aperture to access the PIO registers?
>

  Most of the PIO registers are available under MMIO as well,
unfortunately the crtc registers (and a few others) are only
available in the PIO aperture :(

  Kostas


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