Re: XFree86 4.0

[Hannes Reinecke <civhr civ hw ac uk>]

Peter Petrakis wrote:
> 
> You need the patch for sparse addressing. You can get prebuilt binaries from
> here ftp://zenii.linux.org.uk/pub/people/treblig/XFree4.0-linuxalpha . I'm 
> not sure if I have that on ftp.alphalinux.org yet...  Here's the patch that 
> should fix your problem
> http://www.alphalinux.org/archives/axp-list/March2000/0391.shtml
> 
Nope it doesn't. That's a patch for getting dense addressing run on
PYXIS machines (aka SX/LX 164).
Sparse mode is still broken; according to Jay Estabrook one needs to
change the size of the mmap()ed region to 64GB and remove the HAE
fiddling stuff in
xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_video.c
and then there is a change that is _might_ work.
Hmm. I see whether I can whip up something.

HTH,

Hannes
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