pre-R5&miscs

[Jeff Rugen]

On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Tom Rini wrote:

> > I tried to run the Xpmac from R4, fixed by fix961212, but it dies saying it 
> > cannot define the default font path and doesn't find the font 'fixed'. But
> > this is exactly the same font path that Xpmac from pre-R5 finds without
> > problems. Weird. 
> 
> Nope, expected.  There's some oddity with X servers and X11R6<->XFree86 it
> seems.  I -think-.  Might just be problems trying to read the fonts of
> course..
> 

I think the X11R6 servers can't decompress the gzipped (.gz) fonts, but they
can decompress compressed (.Z) fonts.  I remember having this problem some
time about with X11R6 and the XFree fonts.

On a side note, I've rebuilt the Xbh server in the XFree86 Servers heirarchy
and it seems to be running ok (though I added the power management function
from XFree and haven't tested it yet).  This runs with the XFree86 3.3.3
distribution (glibc1.99 only -- I don't have the hard drive space to upgrade
as of yet).  In addition, I changed it to open /dev/tty0 instead of
/dev/console so it works with the later 2.1.X kernels, _and_ it has some
tweaks for 32-bit color to work (but there's a lot of flicker when text
scrolls so I don't know if I have the timing values right -- no bitblt at
that depth).

I haven't talked to Chris Nadig (hope I have the name right -- going from
memory) recently -- he did most of the Xbh stuff originally -- so most of
these tweaks are probably only in my code.  I'll make the server available
if people want it, though I don't know a place to put it yet.

In addition, I've been playing with the Xfree86 mono server just to learn
Xfee86 stuff, and as a break (as if I've been playing with it enough to need
a break) from the clgen framebuffer code.  With my luck I'll have the mono
server working first.  Anyway -- about clgen, I have it so I can boot with
that framebuffer enabled, but I can't open a virtual terminal with it (but
remotely logging in I can change the screenmode with fbmode (or whatever
that program was called).  haven't looked into it recently, but I hope to
have more time now.  When trying to install the framebuffer as a module, I
get kernel panics, but I'm wondering if its because I'm trying to send debug
output (printk) to a non-initialized console.

Any comments on the above appreciated.

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