Re: Alpha Core 3

On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 21:27 +0100, Oliver Falk wrote:
> Sergey Tikhonov schrieb:
> > Jay Estabrook wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 11:03:13AM -0300,
Fernando Carnero wrote:
> >>  
> >>
> >>> jejejeje, yep of, less diplomatic but same
answer )
> >>> ATI is a bad chice to work in Linux
enviroment, I probe with ATI 
> >>> driver, glx and DRI and never work fine, I
prefere lost my time 
> >>> eating pizza and not configuring ATI ;)
> >>>   
> >>
> >> I've had nothing but good results recently
under AC3 with many Radeons
> >> and even a Rage 128, including reasonable
stability with 3D apps.
> >>
> >> The older Mac64 cards may be an entirely
different story, however,
> >> given your experiences.
> >>
> >> Rergardless, here's  what I think happened to
make the "atimisc" driver
> >> fail on Alpha:
> >>
> >> Here we see the "./configure" line
that starts the build:
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >>> + ./configure
--build=alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu 
> >>> --host=alphaev56-unknown-linux
> >>> -gnu --target=alpha-redhat-linux-gnu
--program-prefix= --prefix=/usr 
> >>> --exec-pref
> >>> ix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin
--sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc 
> >>> --datadir=/usr/s
> >>> hare --includedir=/usr/include
--libdir=/usr/lib 
> >>> --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --loc
> >>> alstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com
--mandir=/usr/share/man 
> >>> --infodir=/usr
> >>> /share/info --disable-static
> >>>   
> >>
> >> I've not been able to figure out where the
"alphaev56-*" is always
> >> coming from, as I know I'm building on an EV6
machine...
> 
> Check out /etc/rpm/platform; We need to fix this for
the different 
> sub-archs I believe... And then check
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/*.
> 
> Arg. Even uname -m reports the wrong thing on my DS10.
:-( Havn't 
> checked the AS1000 yet.
> 
> [rootgosa ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep EV; uname -m; cat
/etc/rpm/platform
> cpu model               : EV67
> alpha
> alpha-redhat-linux
I see the /usr/lib/rpm/macros defines _host and other vars
as alphaev56
(I guess this is because the package was build on my ev56
machine).

Try to run /usr/lib/rpm/config.guess. What does it guess
about your
machine?

Regards,
Sergey.


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Sergey Tikhonov schrieb:
> On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 21:27 +0100, Oliver Falk wrote:
>   
>> Sergey Tikhonov schrieb:
>>     
>>> Jay Estabrook wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 11:03:13AM -0300,
Fernando Carnero wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> jejejeje, yep of, less diplomatic but
same answer )
>>>>> ATI is a bad chice to work in Linux
enviroment, I probe with ATI 
>>>>> driver, glx and DRI and never work
fine, I prefere lost my time 
>>>>> eating pizza and not configuring ATI
;)
>>>>>   
>>>>>           
>>>> I've had nothing but good results recently
under AC3 with many Radeons
>>>> and even a Rage 128, including reasonable
stability with 3D apps.
>>>>
>>>> The older Mac64 cards may be an entirely
different story, however,
>>>> given your experiences.
>>>>
>>>> Rergardless, here's  what I think happened
to make the "atimisc" driver
>>>> fail on Alpha:
>>>>
>>>> Here we see the "./configure"
line that starts the build:
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> + ./configure
--build=alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu 
>>>>> --host=alphaev56-unknown-linux
>>>>> -gnu --target=alpha-redhat-linux-gnu
--program-prefix= --prefix=/usr 
>>>>> --exec-pref
>>>>> ix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin
--sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc 
>>>>> --datadir=/usr/s
>>>>> hare --includedir=/usr/include
--libdir=/usr/lib 
>>>>> --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --loc
>>>>> alstatedir=/var
--sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man 
>>>>> --infodir=/usr
>>>>> /share/info --disable-static
>>>>>   
>>>>>           
>>>> I've not been able to figure out where the
"alphaev56-*" is always
>>>> coming from, as I know I'm building on an
EV6 machine...
>>>>         
>> Check out /etc/rpm/platform; We need to fix this
for the different 
>> sub-archs I believe... And then check
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/*.
>>
>> Arg. Even uname -m reports the wrong thing on my
DS10. :-( Havn't 
>> checked the AS1000 yet.
>>
>> [rootgosa ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep EV; uname
-m; cat /etc/rpm/platform
>> cpu model               : EV67
>> alpha
>> alpha-redhat-linux
>>     
> I see the /usr/lib/rpm/macros defines _host and other
vars as alphaev56
> (I guess this is because the package was build on my
ev56 machine).
>
> Try to run /usr/lib/rpm/config.guess. What does it
guess about your
> machine?
>   

[rootgosa ~]# /usr/lib/rpm/config.guess
alphaev67-unknown-linux-gnu

-of

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