Re: Linux console on 164SX Alpha

Alexander V. Lukyanov (lav@yars.free.net)
Mon, 8 Nov 1999 16:45:36 +0300

On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 12:18:37PM +0100, Daniel Tryba wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 09:43:07PM +0300, Alexander V. Lukyanov wrote:
> > With few tweaks, I was able to compile SVGATextMode on pc164. Works well
> > with the Diamond Stealth 64 (s3 trio64) I have in alpha.
>
> Could you make your version available to the rest of the world? A long
> time ago I tried to compile it myself and didn't succeed. I (and
> possibly others) would appreciate it.

I did this:
rm -rf SVGATextMode-1.8-src/asm

And modified a Makefile:

diff -ru SVGATextMode-1.8-src/XFREE/Makefile SVGATextMode-1.8-src+/XFREE/Makefile
--- SVGATextMode-1.8-src/XFREE/Makefile Tue Apr 15 21:35:20 1997
+++ SVGATextMode-1.8-src+/XFREE/Makefile Thu Feb 5 16:19:33 1998
@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@
common_hw/IBMRGB.o common_hw/STG1703clk.o common_hw/Ti3026clk.o \
common_hw/ATTDac.o common_hw/TGUIclk.o \
common_hw/xf86_PCI.o vgaPCI.o \
- mga_clock.o \
+ mga_clock.o common_hw/IODelay.o \
mach64/mach64_mem_access.o mach64/mach64.o \
xfree_compat.o

# mach64/mach64clockchips.o \

-ASMOBJS = common_hw/IODelay.o
+#ASMOBJS = common_hw/IODelay.o


all: $(XFREELIBS) $(OBJECTS) $(ASMOBJS)

This allowed to compile SVGATextMode, but grabmode was not compiled because
of user_time.c module, which tries to use PC timer directly. But fortunately
I did not need the grabmode utility.

-- 
   Alexander.