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

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:15 AM, David Brownlee <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

Yes, X would be nice to have.

>        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
>
>        :)

I have not tried running 1.6.1 Xserver on NetBSD, but I'll try it some time
soon :)

-Tuomo