Re: No X server on Alpha?
Nathan Whitehorn <[email protected]>
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Richard Loken wrote: > 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. > So it doesn't compile at the moment, because the BSD OS-support code doesn't know to link against libio. If you persuade it to do so, the build goes through. I have yet to test whether it actually works though. -Nathan _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-alpha To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"