Netscape 4.76 MGA DRI
Hello gentlemen, several days ago I've installed 5.0-RELEASE onto one of my machines, which already carried 4.7-RC1. To avoid possible compatibility problems, I did a clean install onto another hard drive, and later recompiled everything. Here I have a couple of annoying issues. Shell refuses to start Netscape Communicator 4.76 (for FreeBSD) saying binary file is not executable, but it was (and is) running fine under 4.7. Since it was compiled under FreeBSD 2.2.x, I have compat22 installed (together with compat3x and compat4x). No help. Second issue comes to be about hardware-accelerated OpenGL under XFree86 4.2.0, using Matrox G400 hardware. Simply, there is no hardware acceleration at all. DRM kernel modules that come with 4.2.0 are intended for use with FreeBSD 4.x, and they don't even compile under 5.x. I built kernel with device mgadrm and options DRM_LINUX, as well as options COMPAT_LINUX. After launching glxgears system hangs up completely. Problem seems to be within libdrm. So far I have no DRI, but software OpenGL, and 162fps compared to 368fps under 4.7. --- Regards, Rhett __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
Re: Netscape 4.76 MGA DRI
Rhett Monteg Hollander wrote: Hello gentlemen, several days ago I've installed 5.0-RELEASE onto one of my machines, which already carried 4.7-RC1. To avoid possible compatibility problems, I did a clean install onto another hard drive, and later recompiled everything. Here I have a couple of annoying issues. Shell refuses to start Netscape Communicator 4.76 (for FreeBSD) saying binary file is not executable, but it was (and is) running fine under 4.7. Since it was compiled under FreeBSD 2.2.x, I have compat22 installed (together with compat3x and compat4x). No help. Recompile your kernel with COMPAT_AOUT, or load the aout.ko kernel module. Second issue comes to be about hardware-accelerated OpenGL under XFree86 4.2.0, using Matrox G400 hardware. Simply, there is no hardware acceleration at all. DRM kernel modules that come with 4.2.0 are intended for use with FreeBSD 4.x, and they don't even compile under 5.x. I built kernel with device mgadrm and options DRM_LINUX, as well as options COMPAT_LINUX. After launching glxgears system hangs up completely. Problem seems to be within libdrm. So far I have no DRI, but software OpenGL, and 162fps compared to 368fps under 4.7. FreeBSD 5.0 comes with the DRM kernel modules in the base system, as it looks like you discovered. Can you enable a serial console and capture the crash? Scott --- Regards, Rhett __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
Re: Netscape 4.76 MGA DRI
Scott Long wrote: Rhett Monteg Hollander wrote: Hello gentlemen, several days ago I've installed 5.0-RELEASE onto one of my machines, which already carried 4.7-RC1. To avoid possible compatibility problems, I did a clean install onto another hard drive, and later recompiled everything. Here I have a couple of annoying issues. Shell refuses to start Netscape Communicator 4.76 (for FreeBSD) saying binary file is not executable, but it was (and is) running fine under 4.7. Since it was compiled under FreeBSD 2.2.x, I have compat22 installed (together with compat3x and compat4x). No help. Recompile your kernel with COMPAT_AOUT, or load the aout.ko kernel module. Floating exception (core dumped), ~2 megs Second issue comes to be about hardware-accelerated OpenGL under XFree86 4.2.0, using Matrox G400 hardware. Simply, there is no hardware acceleration at all. DRM kernel modules that come with 4.2.0 are intended for use with FreeBSD 4.x, and they don't even compile under 5.x. I built kernel with device mgadrm and options DRM_LINUX, as well as options COMPAT_LINUX. After launching glxgears system hangs up completely. Problem seems to be within libdrm. So far I have no DRI, but software OpenGL, and 162fps compared to 368fps under 4.7. FreeBSD 5.0 comes with the DRM kernel modules in the base system, as it looks like you discovered. Can you enable a serial console and capture the crash? Fixed. Problem was in XF86Config, which was set up improperly. Not sure what exactly led to that point, because I've overwritten it with a substitute from 4.7. Now glxgears run fine, at 357fps; interesting, I supposed 5.0 to be faster than 4.7 in this case, at least in honour of gcc-3.2.1 Scott --- Regards, Rhett __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
