Any reason you're posting a very X oriented post to desktop-discuss instead
of xwin-discuss?
Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I have been playing around with Xorg 7.1 for the past few days and have
> managed to compile Xorg 7.1 in it's entirety on OpenSolaris B48 and it
> appears
> to start up okay. Though I have not yet put it through the paces.
> There are issues however. Here's a summary:
>
> -- Build issues --
> * The 7.1 modular tree appears to be a bit broken even while compiling
> with gcc
> on B48. I had to make code changes to several places in the Xserver and
> a few
> video drivers.
Strange - I've built from CVS/git regularly since the 7.x/modularization
started, and have fixed all problems I've found building on Solaris, though
I mainly use Sun Studio cc instead of gcc.
> * The build documentation is poor and one new build script appears to
> have been
> only tested on Linux using bash.
Which one? I use build.sh on Solaris multiple times a week, but have never
used the build-from-tarballs stuff since I'm always building off CVS/git
checkouts.
> Something I do not like is that one needs
> both the 7.0 and 7.1 tarballs since 7.1 only includes a subset of the
> tarballs that
> have changed from 7.0. Then there is a guile script (!!) that merges
> the two.
> I do not have guile and do not intend to install it for the sake of a
> silly script.
Complain to xorg at lists.freedesktop.org.
> * The overall build script required several changes. Some of the generated
> Makefiles were improper and needed manual tweaking. I have also modified
> the "build-from-tarballs" script to be able to merge in patch sets.
>
> * The Xserver module from 7.1 tree appears to be inconsistent! I had to
> grab
> the CVS HEAD. In particular Xgl refers to Xserver functionality that is
> only
> present in the CVS tree.
CVS HEAD is now obsolete for Xorg - X.Org has completely switched to git.
> -- Other problems --
> * Xorg works but Xorg -configure wedges up the console.
On which hardware? Previously when we've seen this it was driver/hardware
specific.
> * I could not build AIGLX since it has a hard dependency on DRI. Xgl builds
> however after several source-level tweaks.
The DRI kernel infrastructure and i810 module integrated to ON for Nevada
build 50, so hopefully this dependency would be cleared up soon. Until then
AIGLX makes no sense on Solaris x86, since it just allows indirect use of
existing GL acceleration, and there is no existing GL acceleration to use.
(Except for nvidia, but they provided accelerated indirect GLX a long time
ago, and since they don't use DRI, wouldn't be affected by AIGLX anyway.)
> * Upon startup Xgl exited with a segv but did not dump core. It works fine
> and initializes a 3D surface when run from GDB! So this looks like a race.
>
> Once these issues are sorted I plan to check whether the Nvidia driver
> works
> with 7.1 as claimed in the documentation. It works now on BeleniX with Xorg
> 6.9 and will be bundled in the next release. Xfce 4.4 has some nice
> composite
> effects like window shadow, panel highlight, transparency which were tested
> without and performance or other issues on a GeForce 6600.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
