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Hi,
I was wondering wether there will be a chance to get X running on a
voodoo3 pci if I get one.
To my understanding I would need to compile and run the standart XFree86
3.3.5 or 3.3.6 XSVGA server, is that correct? Well how do I go about it,
as the source rpm grabbed from a redhat i386 site wont compile :-(. It's
not simply missing the architecture ppc in the *.SPECS file but I seem
to need some more ppc specific patches that the *src.rpm didnt have.
Unfortunately the linuxppc sources for X don't include the XSVGA server,
or at least wont make one without any changes.
So what do I need to do? I compiled a kernel to include standart VGA
console so I hope that should work, will the XFBdev server runn on that
pci card ... I would doubt it.
Can anyone help, any hints or comments ? I'd be willing to try some
hacking in order to make it compile and work.
Cheers
Henning

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The XVGA server won't help you, because that binary is specific to PC
hardware - even if you get it to compile under Linux/PPC.
My guess is that until XFree86 version 4 comes out, PCs and Macs will
have their separate approaches, and Macs will need framebuffer device
support in the kernel. And no, there isn't a framebuffer device for the
voodoo chips (yet?). Therefore only unaccelerated X (OF driver) will
work.

Dietmar