Alright I stripped my processor type, sorry.

The -fPIC -DPIC definitely made a difference. I've been running Gentoo
since January on this particular alpha but have yet (Xfree or Xorg) to
get X to run locally.  Always server core exit on run.
I was also getting lots of:

	Elf_RelocateEntry() Unsupported relocation type 10

Which googling pointed to PIC problems with the compilation.

Xorg -configure always worked okay.  Last problem I was having was xfs
giving a floating point exception on startup.

I modded my local ebuild file to allow -fPIC -DPIC from my CFLAGS to get
passed through.

My current mostly innocuous CFLAGS are:

CFLAGS="-mcpu=ev56 -O3 -pipe -fPIC -DPIC"

The build took 12 hours and I am still getting the ELF errors but it
looks as the X continues to run and doesn't server exit. (I'm not
actually at the console at the moment to see the X though).

BTW, this alpha server 800 with an add-on ATI RagePro3D+TV (Mach 64
derivative)

I disabled the onboard S3 VGA as it wasn't supported except as a VGA.

my lspci output:

0000:00:05.0 SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. ISP1020 Fast-wide
SCSI (rev 05)
0000:00:07.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corp. 82375EB/SB PCI to
EISA Bridge (rev 15)
0000:00:0b.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage II+
215GTB [Mach64 GTB] (rev 9a)
0000:00:0c.0 SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. ISP1020 Fast-wide
SCSI (rev 05)
0000:00:0d.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21152
(rev 02)
0000:00:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Mylex Corporation DAC960P (rev 02)
0000:01:04.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip
21140 [FasterNet] (rev 22)
0000:01:05.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip
21140 [FasterNet] (rev 22)
0000:01:06.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip
21140 [FasterNet] (rev 22)
0000:01:07.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip
21140 [FasterNet] (rev 22)

Brian Parkhurst
brianp@...

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