It has been written that if I cannot locate a specific package to report a bug that I should write this mail list for advice....
So the issue is, I have a number of Alpha Servers (4000/4100 Class) which I have loaded with different Video Cards (all recommended by Xorg and other X11 advocates ) which all worked under FreeX11 (if I have the name correct? or FreeBSDX11??) -- anyway, my research has found that in the FreeX11 package the video system in an Alpha used double buffering or complete video cache replacement and this code was removed by Xorg in the Xserver released for Debian... making native graphics support on an Alpha impossible because one cannot start a X11 Server process. I am hoping and requesting helpp to: a) obtain some advice as to the exact package name I should be looking at which contains the Xserver, i.e from Xorg, as Xorg seems to be supplying all the Xservers, X11, Xlib, Xtk for Debian these days... and b) Who can I talk with who is the maintainer of the Xserver code that allows all of the very cool window managers and really everything to work in a windows environment on Debian, i.e. GNome, KDE, etc. as I would like to have a native X11 server operate correctly on one of the many Alpha Servers we have at my company... I hope to convert all of the Alpha servers to Debian Linux with an X11 base with KDE running. It is curious that I can start a remote X11/KDE or X11/GNome session when the Xserver is running on any intel based system with any video card with commands such as: Telnet (name of AlphaServer) ... or # or > ssh -Y -l username name-of-AlphaServer login... # or > startkde and the entire KDE or Gnome environment comes up and works Fantasticly (my new word...!!!), with some alignment errors, but does not crash... But when I attach a mouse, keyboard, video monitor to any of the "older" recommended video cards that are "supported", the X11 server from Xorg fails with ... (EE) s3(0): No V_BIOS found (II) unmapVidMemSparse: unmapping Base 0x2ff000a0000 Size 0x20000 (==) s3(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (**) s3(0): Chipset: "Trio32/64" (--) s3(0): Framebuffer @ 0x4000000 (--) s3(0): videoRam = 1024 Kb (II) Loading sub module "ramdac" (II) LoadModule: "ramdac" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libramdac.so (II) Module ramdac: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0 Fatal server error: mapVidMemSparse: Could not (sparse) mmap fb (No such file or directory) and after talking with a few ex Alpha Engineers -- they informed me that the double buffering code was removed by Xorg after taking over the X11 component from FreeBSD X11 group. My goal is to take the old FreeBSD code that worked and to integrate it back into the Xserver code which I am trying to find in some debian supported package... (and unfortunately this would be a custom fix unless I can convince the best Linux developers, i.e. obtain Debian's help in having Xorg replace the code to work on Alpha Servers for general use and release... I am at odds that the best coders, unix coders, even took the code out in the first place, instead of using some type of switch or if or variable or symbol statement to simply remove the code on systems that do not need it during the compile/build process... Anyway, can anyone supply me with: 1) the package that I need to access to access the Xserver code 2) the maintainer of said package with contact info so I can try to convince the maintainer to add Alpha Server support or so I can add Alpha Server support and give back my work to the any other Alpha Server Debian based users... Thank you all in advance -- Debian is truly a fantastic Linux environment... Robert Garron Access3000, Inc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]