Hello I have a strange problem with the builtin module loader of XFree. The system is a FPU less PowerPC based embedded design using a CT69000 chip as CRT controller. I configured it for dynamic loading, so the low level hardware driver is called chips_drv.a. If the X server is started (X -probeonly) all i get is a black screen and a X server process consuming all available cpu time. After a little bug hunting, it looks like the builtin module loader isn't correctly relocating calls to various floating point emulation routines (and perhaps other routines as well). On PPC based systems this results in an endless loop, because an unrelocated subroutine call points to itself. Too bad, the module loader does not report this error and does not terminate the server process. For verification, i have compiled the whole XFree stuff again but this time with "#define MakeDllModules YES", so the dynamic loader of the C library is used. After doing some tricks to the inking command of "chips_drv.so", the X server is up and running. It currently works only in unaccelerated mode and the colors look a little bit funny too, but that seems to be another problem. Is this a known bug or limitation of XFree's builtin loader? Is the driver for CT69000 known to work on PowerPC based systems? TIA Dave _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
