> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 09:54:59 -0800 (PST) > From: "B. Levin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > --- Kevin Oberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you are not doing so, could you please keep the FreeBSD port > > maintainer (Eric Anholt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) up to date on what you find? > > And, are you using his patches? > > don't know about any patches; but AFAIK, all I should do is run cvsup (which I > do, all the time) then pkg_version -c or portupgrade or whatever you do to > rebuild ports on bsd. so I do know I was using the latest released 4.7 or > 4.8-RC code (full buildworld and buildkernel, also). > > I will contact him and see if this is news to him.
I was assuming that you were running 4.3.0. Eric A. is the maintainer for the FreeBSD port, but he is trying to get 4.3.0 out for the 4.8 release, so he is probably not interested in 4.2 patches any longer. If you built from ports, you should have 4.2.1 which I run on a dual head Matrox with no problems. (In fact, I am using it to send this message.) I use portupgrade to keep my ports up to date and use the '-DWITH_MATROX_GXX_DRIVER' option to make by entering it into /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf. It builds with the sources in mgadrivers-2.0-src.tgz. I don't see why your results were different. Eric A. is the maintainer for the FreeBSD port, but he is trying to get 4.3.0 out for the 4.8 release, so he is probably NOT interested in 4.2 patches any longer. > > > > > When you referred to the mga_drv.o in ports, did you really mean the > > package? The port should fetch the same Matrox sources that you used and > > build them. > > I mean pkg. I build all things from src on my own machine, I never use pkgs, > only ports. > > the SOURCE is being fetched and the _drv.o files are being created, > but they don't work! only the pre-built matrox .o files from their > site, being slammed into the right lib/.../modules area works. weird, > huh? Very weird! I am baffled as to why your results are different. It is nice that the XFree86 driver binaries are OS independent so that they work on both Linux and FreeBSD. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
