XF68_FBDev under MkLinux?

Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven at cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Tue Dec 8 00:56:07 EST 1998


On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Martin Costabel wrote:
> >What about the XF68_FBDev from XFree86 3.3.3?
> 
> I must confess that I am a bit lost among the many different versions of 
> XF68_FBDev. For the one from XFree86 3.3.3, do I have to install all of 
> XFree86 3.3.3, or does it work with XFree86 3.3.2 which is in linuxppc-pre-R5?
> I tried several versions, and both on R4 and on pre-R5, the result was the same.
> Except that some versions did not want to run on pre-R5.

The X server doesn't use any of the X11 shared libs. All it needs is libc and
libm. So if you have to correct glibc, it's supposed to work.

> If XF68_FBDev is going to be the standard for everybody, one should make sure
> that it works on PowerMacs, too.

Sure it has to!

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven at cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium


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