7.0-snap on iBook G4 + few questions

[Christopher Illies]

Thanks a lot Peter!

I will give it a try and see how far I get with Xorg.

Christopher


On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 09:13:45PM +1000, Peter Grehan wrote:
> Hi Christopher,
> 
> >I am now trying to make the system more useful, i.e. install some
> >ports. The lynx package that was on the web works well, even though I
> >assume it was compiled for 6.0 (?).
> 
>  It was for an early version of 6.0. I haven't done binary packages for 
> quite a while - you're best bet is to build ports from source.
> 
> >Anyway, how do I install the ports collection? Using sysinstall gives
> >the following error message: Warning:   Can't find the
> >`7.0-20051105-SNAP' distribution on this FTP server... 
> >And cvsup is obviously not an option either. I am probably missing
> >something obvious.
> 
>  You should just grab the ports collection, untar it, and manually 
> build the ones you want:
> 
>   ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz
> 
> 
> >Second question: My iBook has a radeon graphics card. According to the
> >the freebsd ppc web site a special driver (radeon_driver.c) is needed.
> >Where should this file be put to be compiled? In the xorg source tree?
> 
>  In the /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-server/ port, do a 'make patch'.
> Then drop radeo_driver.c into
> 
>   work/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/
> 
>  ... and 'make' as per normal.
> 
>  The patch was done a while back: I hope that it still does the right 
> thing, since the Xorg port has probably changed since then.
> 
> >Related to that question: For the radeon driver to work the sysctl
> >hw.ofwfb.relax_mmap should be changed to relax ofw syscon range checks. 
> >What kind af values are sensible to try?
> 
>  It's a boolean so anything > 0 will set it.
> 
> later,
> 
> Peter.