Re: [suse-sparc] X-Server is killed

From: Aurelian Lavric (aurelian.lavric@inria.fr)
Date: Tue Feb 13 2001 - 03:03:01 PST

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From: Aurelian Lavric <aurelian.lavric@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] X-Server is killed

    I'm coming only with a question. In the message posted by Thomas Ortlepp
    he's talking about acroread. Is there a version of acrobat reader
    compiled for sparc-linux? If there is where can I get one?

    Thanks,
    Aurelian

    PS: For the problem mentioned, I know nothing about the Xsun24 server.
    You may try the 8 bit depth one and if it still hangs, try to upgrade to
    the latest version from www.xfree86.org (I think it is 4.0.2, but no
    binaries for sparc-linux are available yet, so you'll have to compile it
    from sources). Also I think that in 4.0.2 you do not have any more a
    separate server, but instead you got drivers for different video cards.
    So, even if you will be able to use Xsun24 as displaying server, don't
    do it because you gona use an another server than the 4.0.2 one. And
    just another point, take a look first on their page to see if the
    Creator cards are supported. From my knowledge the last kernels have
    direct graphics support for Creator framebuffers so an accelerated X
    server for those cards should be also somewhere out there.

    I'll be intrested to know if someone had tested the 4.0.2 server with a
    CG framebuffer driver (I don't have the system beside me for instance so
    I don't know what version of CG card I have, but I can say that's a
    Ultra1 probably with a CG3 card - 8bit depth one).

    And just one other fact: I remember that the suse 7 comes with 4.0
    version of the X server, but I don't know what's the version of the Xsun
    display server. When I gona get to my sun computer I'm gona verify it
    and I'll come with another mail if somebody else haven't done it before.
    It could be intresting to know if somebody else has succeded to use a
    more recent driver (and if it was better) on his sun computer.

    Thomas Ortlepp wrote:

    > Hi,
    >
    > I'm running Suse 7 on a Ultra1 with a Creater2D and
    > use Xsun24. If I start drawing tool "TGIF" then
    > my X-Server is killed and I'm back on the Console.
    > I believe, that this Program ( and also acroread )
    > use a special function witch gives such a bad error.
    > Is here anyone, who can help me?
    >
    > Thomas.
    >
    >
    >

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