NetBSD/atari Xserver (Was: pushing netbsd-5)

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, T. Makinen wrote:

> I've updated NetBSD/atari page about recent fixes and changes. Maybe we
> should do another announcement when RC1 is available :)

 	Looks good.

 	On another topic - it looks like a working Xserver would
 	be quite a compelling factor for NetBSD/atari users.

 	1.6.1 was the last NetBSD release which shipped with an
 	Xserver, (XF68_FBDev from X11R6.3), which was never ported
 	forward:

 	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-archive/NetBSD-1.6.1/atari/binary/sets/

 	XF68_FBDev is a 'raw' framebuffer driver. The two options
 	would be to port it forward to the latest xorg, or adjust
 	the atari grf device to we wsdisplay compatible so it could
 	run the generic wsdisplay Xserver.

 	David/Tuomo - have you tried running the 1.6.1 Xserver on
 	a NetBSD-5.0 install? It should be possible to:
 	- perform a clean NetBSD 5.0 install including the X sets
 	- Install pkgsrc/emulators/compat16
 	- download the 1.6.1 sets and extract ./usr/X11R6/bin/XF68_FBDev
 	  from xserver.tgz only and try running it

 	:)

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