Re: No X server on Alpha?
Richard Loken <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.alpha |
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| Message-ID | <Pine.PMDF.4.44L.0801161201480.1099-100000@local.admin.athabascau.ca> |
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > Does anyone know why xorg-server is marked not for alpha? > > no, but gcc42 is also marked not for alpha, but builds fine on my ds10l. > > Perhaps you could comment this line and give it a try. I agree, force the port to install. And, by the way, most alphas run with serial terminals but not all. I am running X on my PC164 and it works just fine but my card choices were limited and I found I needed an SVGA card with LOTS of on board memory to do what could be done with any junky S3 card when running Linux on Intel. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "Anybody can be a father Athabasca University : but you have to earn Athabasca, Alberta Canada : the title of 'daddy'" ** [email protected] ** : - Lynn Johnston _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-alpha To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"