Hi Marc
>If /dev/fbs/aperture still does not exist on your system, then
>either you did not do a reconfigure boot (a simple reboot won't >suffice), or it failed for some reason.
After installing the aperture driver I performed "touch /reconfigure" followed by a "init 6" as specified in README. And also after reboot I confirmed the existence of /dev/fbs/aperture in the system. Then I issued the command to configure XFree86 using "XFree86 -configure" which resulted in a system hang. I power-cycled the system and checked the /var/log/messages, couldn't see any messages. How can I confirm that my aperture driver is working fine ? And I am not getting the reason for system hang when I ran XFree86 -configure. Am I missing any other configuration ?...
>Also, if you used gcc to generate the aperture driver, ensure its >version is 3.2 or later. Earlier gcc's simply won't work.
My gcc version is 3.4.2 and version details are
bash-2.03# gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.4.2/specs
Configured with: ../configure --with-as=/usr/ccs/bin/as --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld --disable-nls
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.2
My system configuration is
$uname -a
SunOS testhost 5.8 Generic_108528-13 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100
Regards
Asif Iqbal.
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 Marc Aurele La France wrote :
>On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, ASIF IQBAL wrote:
>>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.
>
>>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.
>
>If /dev/fbs/aperture still does not exist on your system, then either you did not do a reconfigure boot (a simple reboot won't suffice), or it failed for some reason. Check /var/log/messages. Also, if you used gcc to generate the aperture driver, ensure its version is 3.2 or later. Earlier gcc's simply won't work.
>
>Marc.
>
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