Re: XF86_Mach64 problem

Thomas Weber (x@AEC.at)
Mon, 29 Jul 1996 19:19:52 +0200 (MET DST)

Jay> OK, the latest LIBC from Red Hat's 3.0.3/AXP distribution, uses /proc/cpuinfo
Jay> to determine what type of system it's running on, so that it can tailor the
Jay> inb/outb, readb/writeb, and bus memory accessing for the particular platform,
Jay> as these are significantly different on the various machines.
Jay>
Jay> At the time the LIBC was built, there was no support for MIKASA, and thus
Jay> its name is most probably *not* in the table LIBC uses to figure out what to
Jay> do.
Jay>
Jay> So, the permanent solution is to rebuilt that LIBC, making the appropriate
Jay> table entry for MIKASA in the "platform" array in sysdeps/linux/alpha/io.c,
Jay> thus:
Jay>
Jay> {"Mikasa", IOSYS_APECS, APECS_DENSE_MEM},

David> Actually, the easy solution is to do:
David>
David> ln -s Cabriolet /etc/alpha_systype
David>
David> That _should_ do it.
David>
David> --david

So I decided to try this first. So the XServer starts without an error
and hangs there, doing nothing (output appended).
So I guess rebuilding the libc and rebuilding the XServer won't help.
(BTW, I tried to symlink all valid names)

Jay> This will all get much simpler with the ELF shared libraries and all, but
Jay> until that time...

That's the other reason i didn't rebuild the libc yet. I wanna go ELF anyway.
And since this machine is more like a personal toy at the moment than a
production machine, i can experiment as much as i want.

Jay> Let me know if this works for you...

If the symlink does about the same thing, it doesn't work for me :(

tschau,
Tom

-- 
It's only cheating, if you get caught


XFree86 Version 3.1.2 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6000)
Operating System: Linux 
Configured drivers:
  Mach64: accelerated server for ATI Mach64 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0)
(using VT number 8)


XF86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config
(**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values
(**) Mouse: type: PS/2, device: /dev/mouse, baudrate: 1200
(**) Mach64: Graphics device ID: "Mach64"
(**) Mach64: Monitor ID: "Hitachi"
Warning: The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/" does not exist.
         Entry deleted from font path.
(**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
(**) Mach64: Option "power_saver"
(--) Mach64: card type: ISA
(--) Mach64: Clock type: ATI18818-1
(--) Mach64: Number of Clocks: 32
(--) Mach64: clocks:  50.35  56.64  63.00  72.00  40.00  44.90  49.50  50.00
(--) Mach64: clocks:   0.00 110.00 126.00 135.00   0.00  80.00  75.00  65.00
(--) Mach64: clocks:  25.18  28.32  31.50  36.00  20.00  22.45  24.75  25.00
(--) Mach64: clocks:   0.00  55.00  63.00  67.50   0.00  40.00  37.50  32.50
(--) Mach64: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 80.000 MHz
(**) Mach64: Mode "640x480": mode clock =  31.500, clock used =  31.500
(**) Mach64: Mode "1024x767": mode clock =  80.000, clock used =  80.000
(**) Mach64: Mode "800x600": mode clock =  50.000, clock used =  50.000
(**) Mach64: Virtual resolution: 1024x767
(**) Mach64: videoram: 2048k
(--) Mach64: Using hardware cursor
(--) Mach64: Using 4 MB aperture
(--) Mach64: Ramdac is Unknown (87)
(--) Mach64: Using 6 bits per RGB value
(--) Mach64: Aperture mapped to 0x4000000


and there it hangs... screens black. Actually, the server seems be running,
since i can start applications that seem to  connect to it. It's just that 
the screen stays black.



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