Re: [suse-sparc] X 4.1 Compile on Ultra 5?

From: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk@suse.de)
Date: Wed Aug 01 2001 - 13:05:33 PDT

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    Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 22:05:33 +0200
From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
Message-ID: <20010801220533.A10933@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc]  X 4.1 Compile on Ultra 5?

    On Wed, Aug 01, Holzrichter, Bruce wrote:

    >
    > Hello,
    > I am trying to compile the XFree V4.1.0 tree on a Sun Ultra5 with an ATI
    > card, and SuSE Linux 7.1 Sparc version installed. So far, I have run into
    > these problems:
    >
    > First: Bison not installed, compile failed.
    > Resolution: Download bison v1.28 from fsf.org, compiled and installed.
    > Second: Flex not installed, compile failed.
    > Resolution: Download Flex v 2.5.4 from fsf.org, compiled and installed.

    Why not installing the packages with YaST/YaST2 from our CDs ?

    > The compile seemed to work with some minor warnings along the way, however I
    > am getting the message below when trying to start X. I am not sure were to
    > go from here, I have looked through Relnotes, INSTALL-X.org, searched on
    > newsgroups, e-mailed the lists at xfree.org and started looking through the
    > source for X. I am not a software developer, but done some coding. I have
    > seen vague references while searching that this may be a bug in the driver
    > code. Any help would be appreciated, or pointers in the right direction, as
    > I think someone out there may have seen this before, and I would rather not
    > rebuild the wheel so to speak.
    >
    > Error: xf86MapPciMem: Could not mmap PCI memory
    > [base=0xe2000000,hostbase=0xe2000000,size=2000] (No such file or directory)

    Did you apply the patch from Dave Miller for XFree86 4.1.0 and runs
    kernel 2.4.7 ? Else there is no chance to get it working.

      Thorsten 

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