Re: Need help getting started

Stefan Niestegge wrote:

> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config file have following lines:
> > ---
> > Section "Screen"
> >      Driver      "fbdev"
> > #    Device      "Falcon"
> >      Device      "TT"
> >      Monitor     "Color Video Monitor"
> > ---
> > so maybe you have to enable "Falcon" line instead?
> >
> 
> Great, i followed your procedure and i do now get the X server started.

Yeah, good to here :-)

> so, now i use the R6 Xserver but R7 fonts, twm, X-apps?

R6 Xserver should work even with R7 environment,
but I notice that NetBSD/alpha 6.1.3 doesn't include
X11R6 files at all so we also have to prepare other R6 files
in xbase.tgz (or xserver.tgz) archives in the past release.

> I'd never expected this could work. But it does! Some small hickups,
> though, startx fails with some error messages, but when i start X myself
> 
> #X && xterm
> 
> it works as expected. The keyboard is not changed to "de" layout as
> i would expect from the XF86config file. I need some time to fix this.
> Hints apreciated!

The old X11R6 xbase.tgz in 1.6.2 include more necessary files like
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/
for xkb, so extracting these files from the archive
might help:
---
# cd /
# ftp http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-archive/NetBSD-1.6.2/atari/binary/sets/xbase.tgz
# tar -zxvpf xbase.tgz ./usr/X11R6/lib/xkb
 :
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Izumi Tsutsui