Re: Elsa Winner 2000AVI/3D

["Adam C. Powell, IV" <adam powell nist gov>]

Uwe Thiem wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> I'm trying to run X as in XFree86-SVGA-3.3.2-13.alpha.rpm (RH 5.1) on
> an Elsa Winner 2000AVI/3D card with 4 MB ram. (Forget about the
> S3V server.) With a colour depth > 8 bpp I always get:
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
>
> It used to work with RH 4.2, at least up to 16 bpp.
>
> Anybody with the same problem? Or even better with a solution?

I had this same problem when I built XFree86 3.3.2 using egcs.  This is in
the egcs FAQ, under the obscure heading "Problems building Linux kernels"
(http://egcs.cygnus.com/faq.html#linuxkernel).  It's actually a kernel bug,
which causes problems because of aggressive optimization of X by egcs.  The
old gcc, the one which came with RH 4.2, compiles a working XFree86.

The funny thing is that RedHat would ship an XFree86 RPM with this problem.
They really should know better.

Question: since it's a kernel bug, does an egcs-built XFree86 work on the
newest 2.1 kernels, anybody?

Zeen,

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