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

I'll test this out a bit soon as well.  I think I tried getting X to work 
once but got stuck and didn't put much effort into it at the time.  It would 
be nice to get it working though.

David Ross
[email protected]



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T. Makinen" <[email protected]>
To: "David Brownlee" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 4:54 PM
Subject: 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
>