Subscribed to freebsd@freebsd.org.. but no mails?

[Nathan Whitehorn]

nse wrote:
> Hi guys
> I signed up some 14 days ago to the freebsd-ppc at freebsd.org mailing-list....
> but I have never received any mails (apart from the confirmation mail) ...
> and I also noticed that a number of mails here do not show up on the mailman
> archive list...
> is this just "the-way-it-is-supposed-to-work" ? or ??

Well, it's a low traffic list. I don't know about the mailman archives.

> Anyways.. a couple of questions(that I also tried to mail to the
> freebsd-ppc at freebsd.org)
> 
> I have installed FreeBSD on a an old TiBook(400Mhz) and so far i am pretty
> impressed!!
> 
> a couple of questions though:
> 
> 1.	Does the patch for "radeon_driver.c" have to be applied also for the
> TiBook's ATI Mobility RAGE ??
> 	(I'm getting the following from Xorg.log:
> 
> (WW) xf86EnableIO 5
> (II) xf86EnableIO: ffffffff
> (WW) Can't map IO space!
> (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:10:0
> (EE) No devices detected.
> 
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> 
> I have tried to put in 'BusID "PCI:0:16:0"', as the card is found according
> to :
> (--) PCI:*(0:16:0) ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x rev 2, Mem @
> 0xb4000000/26, 0xb0000000/14, I/O @ 0x0400/8, BIOS @ 0xb0020000/17
> but so far no luck!

This should really be an FAQ somewhere. There's a sysctl you need to 
set, something like machdep.ofb_relax_mmap (sysctl -a | grep mmap will 
turn it up quickly). You need to set it to 1 for X to work. You can put 
it in /etc/sysctl.conf to be set at boot time.

> 2.	Will there be any precompiled packages for the PowerPC ?

This would be nice, of course. There was some talk of adding a G4 XServe 
to the build cluster once Marcel finishes his SMP work. Hopefully this 
will result in packages.

> 3.	Any chance of getting Java 1.5(or newer) working?
> 	(sofar it appears to be x86 or amd only)

You could try building it. No guarantees, though.
-Nathan