Re: Alpha Core 1.0a

[Andrija Pantovic <andrija.pantovic@xxxxxxx>]

Hello Sergey,

I rebuild xorg using gcc33 and it works perfectly !!!
For test I even managed to play some DIVX movies with quite decent
quality on my PWS600.

Great job Sergey !

I am so glad you got involved in alpha port initiative !

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 15:53 +0300, Sergey Tikhonov wrote:
>Sergey Tikhonov wrote:
>
>> The mga driver need libvgahw.a module (I checked the source).
>> I put my testing "libvgahw.a" module at 
>> ftp://ftp.rdsor.ro/pub/Linux/Distributions/AlphaLinux/core/1.0a/test
>> Could you take it and copy to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/ and test with it?
>>
>> I will try to check how that module is different from the 6.7.0 version.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>Well, the code for vgahw in 6.7.0 version is the same as for 6.8.1. The 
>difference is a compiler.
>FC3 uses gcc 3.4. I compiled original "libvgahw" module from 6.8.1 by 
>gcc33 compiler and it works. :)
>So, it became even more difficult to track down.
>
>The simple solution - just to build xorg package with gcc33. :)
>
>PS. I think I will check assembler output for both compilers and see if 
>gcc34 could be tricked.
>
>Regards,
>
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