help needed: Xserver on alpha (broken in X11R7)

[Alan Hourihane]

On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 17:03 +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> The Xserver in X11R7 has stopped working for alpha architectures. The
> problem is catalogued at [1] though there are not many details there
> yet.  The server builds successfully but seems to get caught in some
> loop at startup.
> 
> The problem started in X11R7, apparently Xorg 6.9 was still working.
> That would suggest some defines from the old imake configuration files
> got lost, or some value in the new configure.ac is misassigned for
> alpha.
> 
> Is there anyone with access to an alpha box and the will to assist
> sorting out the problem?  We'd greatly appreciate any help.  Does X11R7
> actually worked on alpha for anyone?

I can take a look at this.

Alan.