Subject: Need help with kernal upgrade/Re: New version of Xpmac accelerated for Rage128, Mach64, with usb available
From: red-shift (16stone@pipeline.com)
Date: Fri Jan 14 2000 - 16:29:02 MST
The information on www.linuxppc.org is regarding the linuxppc distribution of
linux, could somone give me some instructions how i update the ydl kernal?
thanks,
andrew
Kevin Hendricks wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just posted the latest version (revision 8) of Ryuichi Oikawa's Xpmac
> Xserver which is accelerated for Rage128 and Mach64. This version has support
> for usb mice as well as adb mice.
>
> This is a bugfix release:
> - the versioned [gs]etrlimit which forced glibc 2.1.3 -0j are gone!
> - a serious bug in usb mouse button event times have been fixed
> - Problems drawing lines (ie.. the tick marks on xclock) have been worked
> around.
>
> Please give it a try and let me know if you run into problems:
> AFTER making sure you have tried everything in the ReadThisFirst.txt file!).
>
> ***PLEASE NOTE***:
> The URL's given below are on my work desktop workstation which I need to do
> my research and can't handle a big load so please check at Robert Shaw's G3 site
> http://www.linuxppc.org/blueg3/ first for revision 8 before downloading it from
> the URL's given below.
>
> (ps. I have not given Robert much of a head's up so if
> you wait a day or so it should soon appear on his site).
>
> The URLs are:
>
> ftp://khendricks.ivey.uwo.ca/pub/
> http://khendricks.ivey.uwo.ca/rage128_usb/
>
> If you have trouble downloading this file using netcape, remember to use the
> right mouse button (or under MacOS click and hold the link to download the file
> as source (versus text).). Note, some netscapes automagically gunzip the file
> for you without removing the .gz from the name. Check the file sizes to be
> sure what your netscape does.
>
> Have fun!
>
> Kevin
>
> p.s. If you need or want the source, e-amil me directly and I would be happy to
> send it to you as an e-mail attachment. To build the source, you must place
> it in the XFree 3.3.5 source tree to replace the original powermac
> directory using Tom Rini's ppc source rpm.
>
>
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