Re: Building XFree86 3.3.6 using gcc3.3.5

"Tinow ME" <me.tinow@xxxxxxxxx> · Sat, 28 Oct 2006 13:31:11 +0800

thank you, I'll have a try

On 10/27/06, Mark Vojkovich <mvojkovi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

    I recommend XFree86 4.6.0.  We don't support 3.x servers anymore
and, from looking at the neomagic driver code, it looks like it was
ported from XFree86 3.x back in '98/'99 and there have been bug fixes
as recent at 2004.

                Mark.

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Tinow ME wrote:

> Thanks for your reply.
> My old laptop has a Neogeo 128XD chip which I find it's supported
> by xfree86 4.x, and it has a CPU of pity pentium mmx 300, ram of
> 160M, I am afraid it has not the capacity to run the lastest version
> of xfree86 acceptably, because my graphic card does not support
> AGP. Could you give me an advice that which version of xfree86
> should I install?
>
>                                                                  Tinow ME
>
> On 10/26/06, Mark Vojkovich <mvojkovi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >    It may be that XFree86 3.3.6 isn't expected to compile
> > with 2.6 kernels.  We officially dropped support for XFree86
> > 3.x versions some number of years ago and I know we did have
> > to add some 2.6 kernel specific stuff to the XFree86 4.x
> > servers.  XFree86 3.x isn't necessarily any lighter than
> > XFree86 4.x servers.  The only reason for considering a
> > 3.x server would be for old graphics adaptors which aren't
> > well-supported in 4.x.  Which graphics adaptor do you have?
> > If it's well-supported in 4.x you're better off with 4.x.
> >
> >                 Mark.
> >
> > On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Tinow ME wrote:
> >
> > > Hello, everybody.I have an old laptop so I decided to compile
> > >  install xfree86 3.3.6 CVS on Debian 3.1 with kernel 2.6.17.13.
> > > After make World >& world.log I find there is a error message
> > > in world.log, it appears:
> > >
> > > ==============================
> > > In file included from fbdev.c:54:
> > > /usr/include/stdlib.h:748: error: syntax error before "int"
> > > make[6]: *** [ fbdev.o ] Error 1
> > > ============================================================
> > > and I find in stdlib.h:
> > > ============================================================
> > > ...
> > > line747:  /* Return the absolute value of X.  */
> > > line748:  extern int abs (int __x) __THROW __attribute__ ((__const__));
> > > line749:  extern long int labs (long int __x)  __THROW __attribute__
> > > ((__const__));
> > > line750:  __END_NAMESPACE_STD
> > > ...
> > > ============================================================
> > >
> > > Anyone help?
> > > Best Regards,
> > > Tinow ME
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