On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 11:03:13AM -0300, Fernando Carnero wrote:
jejejeje, yep of, less diplomatic but same answer :))
ATI is a bad chice to work in Linux enviroment, I probe with ATI driver,
glx and DRI and never work fine, I prefere lost my time eating pizza and
not configuring ATI ;)
I've had nothing but good results recently under AC3 with many Radeons
and even a Rage 128, including reasonable stability with 3D apps.
The older Mac64 cards may be an entirely different story, however,
given your experiences.
Rergardless, here's what I think happened to make the "atimisc" driver
fail on Alpha:
Here we see the "./configure" line that starts the build:
+ ./configure --build=alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu --host=alphaev56-unknown-linux
-gnu --target=alpha-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr --exec-pref
ix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/s
hare --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --loc
alstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr
/share/info --disable-static
I've not been able to figure out where the "alphaev56-*" is always
coming from, as I know I'm building on an EV6 machine...
Next comes:
checking host system type... alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu
OK, this prolly sets the "host_cpu" var in the script to "alphaev56".
And finally we see:
checking whether to include PIO support... no, MMIO
And that's the crux, according to the messages that later appear in
Xorg.0.log.
Now, looking at ./configure we see:
case $host_cpu in
i*86)
ATIMISC_TV_OUT=yes
ATIMISC_CPIO=yes
;;
x86_64|amd64|alpha|ia64)
ATIMISC_CPIO=yes
;;
sparc)
ATIMISC_DGA=no
;;
powerpc)
ATIMISC_NON_PCI=no
;;
*)
;;
esac
And there it is - it should be "x86_64|amd64|alpha*|ia64" instead, to catch
any subarchs that show up in this field.
Anyone for a rebuild? :-) :-)