[Openchrome-users] via Chrome Driver compilation

[Jon Nettleton]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Xavier Bachelot <xavier at bachelot.org> wrote:
> Saravanan Doss wrote:
>> thanks guys
>>
>> is there a work around so that i can still use it.
>>
>> now i am using generic vesa driver, but i am unable to startx directly
>> as it hangs and displays full blue,green,red screens
>>
>> all i have to do is press ctrl+alt+del to restart in text mode then
>> issue startx command
>> to get gui
>>
>> Right now bcoz of my application which runs only on rhel4 we r unable to
>> use rhel5
>>
>> can u suggest me some twaeks to use vesa driver
>>
>> Thanks
>> das
>>
>> --- On *Thu, 1/22/09, John Robinson /<john.robinson at anonymous.org.uk>/*
>> wrote:
>>
>>     From: John Robinson <john.robinson at anonymous.org.uk>
>>     Subject: Re: [Openchrome-users] via Chrome Driver compilation
>>     To: "Xavier Bachelot" <xavier at bachelot.org>
>>     Cc: "Saravanan Doss" <das711 at yahoo.com>, openchrome-users at openchrome.org
>>     Date: Thursday, January 22, 2009, 10:20 PM
>>
>>     On 22/01/2009 14:58, Xavier Bachelot wrote:
>>     > Saravanan Doss wrote:
>>     >> hi all
>>     >>  I am running RHEL AS4 with update 6 on my laptop having chrome9 IGP.
>>     The kernel version is 2.6.9-67 ELSMP
>>     >>  When i try to compile the source code it reports xorg-server.pc
>>     package not found
>>     >>  where can i find the package or is there a work around
>>     >>
>>     > Imho, forget about the home made compilation. RHEL4 is still running
>>     > monolithic X (6.8.2 iirc), which means you'll have to patch X with
>>     > openchrome and rebuild everything. This is a lot of pain, I've done it
>>     > for years back in the days of unichrome, but I also stopped maintaining
>>     > it for year. And openchrome probably doesn't even compile with this
>>     > setup anymore. You can possibly take a look at the contributed binary
>>     > packages page in the wiki, John Robinson used to rebuild my Fedora
>>     > packages on RHEL4, but he probably quit doing that too.
>>
>>     Yes, 'fraid so. If my office was less of a disaster zone I'd fire up
>>     the machine I used to do the builds on and have a go doing a fresh one, but
>>     it'll be weeks before that's possible.
>>
>
> If any of you want to take a look, the spec file and srpm are still on
> the net :
>
> http://washington.kelkoo.net/epia/FC4/SPECS/xorg-x11.spec
> http://washington.kelkoo.net/epia/FC4/SRPMS/xorg-x11-6.9-0.FC4.ucr.14.src.rpm
>
>
> This is the latest I have for monolithic X. Take care this is xorg 6.9
> while you want 6.8.2, go back to FC3 for 6.8.2.
>

And the other problem you will have is that we have ripped all the
support out for older versions of Xorg.  I remember tagging a branch
as pre_1.3_support or something, but I think I did that before adding
any chipsets support for chrome9.

Ultimately I think it would be less work to port your application to
Centos 5, than update our driver.  You may also want to look at
running it in a VM of some sort.

Jon