Hi Marc
Thanks for your valuable information. I am able to install the aperture driver according to README under aperture/README. The driver compiled for 64 bit and there was no issue with adding the driver. I have confirmed the driver installation with modinfo | grep aperture. But after this step when I tried once again, XFree86 -configure the system hangs. The last line of then console output as follows.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Fri Nov 26 16:50:37 2004
Then I restarted the system, and when I checked XFree86.0.log, I could not see any messages. Am I missing still any configuration steps. Can this error be associated with "(WW) xf86LinearVidMem: linear memory access disabled". Can you explain possible reasons for this error. Did I miss any specific configuration during building.
Regards
Asif Iqbal.
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 Marc Aurele La France wrote :
>On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, ASIF IQBAL wrote:
>
>> i am trying to bring up XFree86-4.4.0 on solaris-8/SPARC. I have built the XFree86 source on solaris 8/SPARC, during which i have done the following.
>>1. Edited
>>#define BuildXFree86OnSparcSunOS YES
>>#define ThreadedX NO
>>in xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/etc/bindist/Solaris/host.def
>>2. Copy host.def as
>> cp xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/etc/bindist/Solaris/host.def xc/config/cf/
>>3. vi config/imake/Makefile.ini
>> change CC = gcc
>> PREPROCESS_CMD = gcc -E
>>4. make World > World.log 2>&1
>> tail -f World.log
>>During building i got the error in xc/programs/glxinfo/ directory that __eprintf: symbol referencing error. for that change CC=g++ in Makefile of glxinfo directory.
>>then again i build it with just make.
>>got an error of png.h not found. For that install libpng and build once again.
>>After building, i installed the binaries by the command
>>make install
>>then while i try to configure by
>>XFree86 -configure
>>i got the following error log. can anybody give me the solution for this?...
>
> [...]
>
>>(WW) xf86LinearVidMem: failed to open /dev/fbs/aperture (No such file or directory)
>>(WW) xf86LinearVidMem: either /dev/fbs/aperture or /dev/xsvc device driver required
>>(WW) xf86LinearVidMem: linear memory access disabled
>
>Read these. Then follow that up with README.Solaris.
>
>Marc.
>
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