Xfree86 4.3.0 Mutlihead now works after a small patch
Sergey A. Osokin
osa at freebsd.org.ru
Tue Apr 1 01:52:16 PST 2003
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:20:05PM +0800, Shaun Dwyer wrote:
>
> I was looking around for a fix to the problem discovered a short while ago
> with respect
> to Xfree86 and multihead, and found something...
>
> From the changelog from the cvs tree for
> X(http://www.xfree86.org/cvs/changes.html) i noticed
> a fix had been done for the int10 problem.
>
> A patch is available here:
> http://bugs.xfree86.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6
>
> Steps I took to resolve this issue:
> extracted the Xfree86-4-Servers port,
> slightly modified the diff so it would patch (the paths to the files)
> patched it,
> installed,
> configured X as it was before with the multiple heads,
>
> restarted X, and it worked!
>
> My system has an AGP nvidia GF2 card as well as a PCI Matrox Mistique card.
>
> Any ideas as to how long until we'll see this patch incorporated into the
> Xfree86 port,
> or are we just waiting for 4.3.1 to be released?
I think you must talk about this problem with XFree86 port maintainer:
$ make -f ports/x11/XFree86-4/Makefile -V MAINTAINER
anholt at FreeBSD.org
Also, you may open PR via send-pr interface.
Thank you for your report.
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