Author: John BaldwinJohn Baldwin
Date: Jan 19, 2008 12:11
On Saturday 19 January 2008 10:42:05 am Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
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> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Richard Loken wrote:
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>> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
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>>>> Does anyone know why xorg-server is marked not for alpha?
>>>
>>> no, but gcc42 is also marked not for alpha, but builds fine on my ds10l.
>>>
>>> Perhaps you could comment this line and give it a try.
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>> I agree, force the port to install. And, by the way, most alphas run with
>> serial terminals but not all. I am running X on my PC164 and it works
>> just fine but my card choices were limited and I found I needed an SVGA
>> card with LOTS of on board memory to do what could be done with any junky
>> S3 card when running Linux on Intel.
>
> After forcing xorg-server to link -lio, everyone works perfectly. I even
> have Firefox (1.5) and pidgin running without issue. And with the recent ...
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