Cannot get X to work (G5, NV34)

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Tue Apr 8 11:17:17 UTC 2014


On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 11:43:03PM -0400, Julio Merino wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Julio Merino <jmmv at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > I am trying to get X.Org to work on my PowerMac G5 and haven't been
> > successful at it.  (Actually, this was working fine a few months ago
> > when I originally got the machine... but it won't now... so either
> > it's because I'm not configuring something right or because something
> > somewhere has changed.) [...]
> 
> Dug some more details by rebuilding the server, driver and related
> libraries with WITH_DEBUG=yes. There seem to be a problem in the
> libpciaccess library, which is apparently broken for non-x86 machines.
> Filed PR ports/188278 with the relevant details.

Nice investigation; thanks for filing the PR and making PowerPC a better
place to live Julio. ;-)

./danfe


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