Alpha Core 3

[Sergey Tikhonov]

Jay Estabrook wrote:

>On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 11:03:13AM -0300, Fernando Carnero wrote:
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>>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 ;)
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>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:
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>Here we see the "./configure" line that starts the build:
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>>+ ./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
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>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:
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>>checking host system type... alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu
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>OK, this prolly sets the "host_cpu" var in the script to "alphaev56".
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>And finally we see:
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>>checking whether to include PIO support... no, MMIO
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>And that's the crux, according to the messages that later appear in
>Xorg.0.log.
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>Now, looking at ./configure we see:
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>>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
>>    
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>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? :-) :-)
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ftp://alphalinux.rdsor.ro/pub/Linux/Distributions/AlphaLinux/core/3.0b/updates/xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.2-4axp.alpha.rpm

Here is rebuilt package as suggested by Jay. You could try it... I just 
rebuilt it, haven't actually tested it because I don't have ati adapter 
around.

Regards,

-- 
Sergey Tikhonov

Head, R&D department
Solvo Ltd.
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
http://www.solvo.ru
tsv at solvo.ru