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 > > > _______________________________________________ > > > XFree86 mailing list > > > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > XFree86 mailing list > > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
