Monthly Archives: December 2004

e17 CVS on FreeBSD 4.10

I figured out why I have the autofoo problems on FreeBSD with enlightenment CVS. Turns out that the libtool.m4 macro is not being pulled in when running autogen.sh (aclocal rather). The fix is to set the ACLOCAL_FLAGS environment varible to … Continue reading

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Direct Rendering on IGP340

The FC3 update to Xorg 6.8.1 now enables direct rendering on the ATI Radeon IGP340 chipset. I am getting ~340 FPS@24bpp with glxgears. FreeBSD still does not have a AGP driver for the IGP chipset.

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Ernakulam Safe!

Ernakulam safe from the waters (so far).

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Enlightenment DR17

Early morning Sunday hackery to get enlightenment 0.17 desktop environment running on Fedora Core 3 was a success. This is definitely the coolest graphical environment I have seen so far in any OS environment (except for the Mac OSX). These … Continue reading

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Elegant rollback using cvsup

How did I rollback to Xorg 6.7? Set “*default date=2004.12.23.00.00.00″ in cvs-supfile and “portinstall x11-servers/xorg-server”. Then add “'xorg-server-*',” to HOLD_PKGS in pkgtools.conf to prevent accidental upgrades. For all I know, the regression might have been a broken compile with Xorg … Continue reading

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