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Swishy Guru
Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 491 Location: NZ
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Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 10:39 pm Post subject: Anyone using Xfree 4.2.99 |
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Hi all
Just started playing with Xfree 4.2.99 for the hell of it and all apps that go to use opengl currently die ,ie tux racer dies with segmentation error , and winex just fires up unhandled exceptions......the desktop environment itself is working really nice (alpha blended mouse cursor is a nice piece of work ) however..anyone else had any problems or have I missed something???
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Dale. _________________ Theres no substitute for C.I. |
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raziel n00b
Joined: 28 Sep 2002 Posts: 38 Location: CO
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Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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I was using XFree 4.2.99 CVS on my laptop (but I finally gave up and dropped back to Windows on it until XFree 4.3.0 comes out officially and ACPI matures a little more)
I didn't have the problems you're describing at all. In fact, for the most part, it ran pretty well. What GCC optimizations are you running? Have you tried scaling them back and using something less aggressive? |
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474 l33t
Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 714
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Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2002 1:12 am Post subject: |
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I know this is a little OT, but I notice a reference to ACPI immaturity from raziel. If you include this USE flag: with gentoo-sources-r10, then a considerably newer ACPI core will be patched against the kernel which hasn't caused me any problems. The only side-effect is that shutdown by power button doesn't work anymore, but that can be fixed by changing the configuration file for sys-apps/acpid (/proc/acpi/button returns a different string in newer versions of ACPI, you can cat it to find out). Or you could patch the (even newer) ACPI core from the project's homepage at sourceforge. Perhaps that would help? |
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chrish01 Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 18 Oct 2002 Posts: 77 Location: Washington, US
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Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2002 2:03 am Post subject: |
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ive been using 4.2.99.3 on one of my machines for some time now...it works great. you might want to make sure that you did an `opengl-update nvidia`if you have an nvidia card. but then again, ive been using the cvs xfree since i started this machine, you might have unresolved symbols and such if tuxracer, and others were compiled under xfree 4.2.1
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Swishy Guru
Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 491 Location: NZ
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Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2002 2:18 am Post subject: |
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Cheers for the replies guy's , I hadnt thought about recompiling the apps against the new version of X , I wasnt sure what api differences there were , I have figured the winex problem is unrelated after a few more test's ( and recompiling X 4.2.1 ) .
Ill try again and rerun opengl-update and see what happens ,
just FYI I'm only using march=pentium3 -0s -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer for my gcc optimisations and nothing has broken yet ....(even e17 )
BTW tuxracer was working before the updated X install and winex is from transgaming (bin version ) so I would have thought they should have been happy as is ...
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Swishy Guru
Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 491 Location: NZ
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Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2002 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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ok got it working , reemerged Xfree 4.2.99 nvidia drivers ,opengl-update and all is ok ....... winex is still unhappy but thats another issue
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