Re: Missing X binary

Parodper <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mips.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
O 01/12/21 ás 19:26, David Brownlee escribiu:
> On Sun, 31 Oct 2021 at 10:28, Parodper <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was playing around on gxemul with a DECstation 3MAX VM, and found out,
>> when trying to startx, that the xserver.tgz set does not include the
>> eponymous X server.
>>
>> Am I missing something, or is it just not included?
> 
> It looks like it dropped out during an upgrade of the Xorg version
> between NetBSD-7 and NetBSD-8 (probably when XAA acceleration support
> was dropped). As it happens it should be possible to run a generic
> Xwsfb X server, similar to VAX.

Thanks for the answer. Will try that when I have the time.

> However, unless I miss my guess, gxemul doesn't actually emulate
> DECstation display hardware, so an X server may not help you.

http://gavare.se/gxemul/gxemul-stable/doc/machine_decstation.html#netbsdpmaxinstall 
does show twm, but that info was last updated on NetBSD 7.1.2
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