Re: Quadra 800 and X11 issues

Thank you for responding. I realize this platform is NOT popular at all so
I really wasn't expecting much for a response. Funny thing is the one thing
I didn't try was the WSFB kernel. Ok, I think I'll stall out for 9.3 to be
released and I'll give it another go with the other kernel. Thank you for
your time

On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 4:23 PM Rin Okuyama <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sorry for the late response!
>
> On 2022/03/07 23:51, Dana Eckel wrote:
> > Well, I managed to install the full NetBSD 9.2 on a standard Quadra 800
> with 136MB of ram with no issues. Fairly simple install. However I am
> having trouble with X11. From what I read from the installer it should be
> as simple as entering in startx and I should be greeted to a glorious B/W
> X11 instance. However I am receiving errors like xauth: file
> /useraccount/.serverauth.714 does not exist, and at the very end it is
> unable to connect to xserver and connection refused. I have read that only
> the client is installed but not the xserver. another site said you can
> install a color server but the links for installing that are extremely old
> and broken, but I see videos where a LC III has color X11. but they never
> said how they did it. Is there any updated information how to get X11
> running on this old beast? Thanks!
>
> (1) You can use WSFB kernel, instead of GENERIC. Then, X server as well as
>      wscons become colorful. Probably, we should switch to WSFB by default,
>      before NetBSD 10 is released.
>
> (2) Server crash is not related to xauth(1). Please put below lines into
>      /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>          Identifier      "Keyboard0"
>          Driver          "kbd"
>          Option          "Protocol"      "wskbd"
> EndSection
>
>      Note that this problem will be fixed in upcoming NetBSD 9.3; X server
>      should work just fine without xorg.conf.
>
> Thanks,
> rin
>