what's the difference between the two?  why does linux have it's own
version?  why couldn't the linux version be used with BSD? something to
do with the kernel?

Alex

--- Eric Anholt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 09:14, Alex Deucher wrote:
> 
> If the mode validation interacts with the bios at all (I don't really
> know this stuff), one major difference between Linux and FreeBSD is
> use
> of emulation for int10.  On a Linux system, you can use emulation
> like
> on FreeBSD by moving /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libint10.a out of
> the
> way so the generic (emulation) one is used.
> 
> Int10 and the emulation for it is the most common cause of
> differences
> between Linux and *BSD for 2d in XFree86, I would say.
> 
> -- 
> Eric Anholt                                [EMAIL PROTECTED]          
> http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/         [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 


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