Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Has anyone tried xorg-server-1.5.3 yet?

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 02:31:08AM +0800, Zhang Le wrote:
> I am trying to make it work.
> The current status is: after startx, the screen is white, nothing shows, no
> mouse, no window. Then the color changed. Left half still white, a pink stripe
> in the middle, a grey area in the right.
> But the system is still working. X could be killed.
> 
> I am using xorg-server-1.5.3 with this patch:
> http://www.gentoo-cn.org/gitweb/?p=loongson;a=blob;f=x11-base/xorg-server/files/xorg-server-1.5.3-loongson.patch;h=9c48b3752b7f14b6603524f46ae832f312e7c6fe;hb=HEAD
> 
> I am using latest linux-mips source with latest lemote linux source:
> http://www.gentoo-cn.org/gitweb/?p=linux-loongson;a=summary
> 
> xorg-server 1.5.x requires linux has this patch:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=98873f53becea9a8a46972ff252e96fe575b120d
> which mean at least linux-2.6.28. Lemote's linux version is only 2.6.27:
> http://dev.lemote.com/git?p=linux_loongson.git;a=summary
> So I have merged lemote's linux git tree with linux-mips's. The source can be
> found in above the above link.
> 
> This combination of xorg-server and linux is working on fuloong 2f box.
> 
> So I guess the problem should be in xf86-video-siliconmotion driver.
> Liu Shiwei of bjlx.org.cn told me the latest source is here:
> ftp://www.bjlx.org.cn/loongson2f/lenny/xorg-server/
> Is it?

Hi,

It works fine with fbdev:

 Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
        Driver          "fbdev"
        Option          "UseFBDev"              "true"
 EndSection

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