Re: Missing X binary

On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 18:59, Parodper <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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

Aha - thanks for the pointer!

OK, so the NetBSD-7.1 ISO failed to boot for me under gxemul, but I
was able to boot and install the latest netbsd-HEAD from
http://nyftp.netbsd.org/ and then use it to mount the NetBSD-7.1 ISO
and extract the sets into /altroot

A quick 'chroot /altroot' and 'export PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH' then
'startx' and the glory of twm is revealed.

Let me tweak a copy of the NetBSD tree to build an Xwsfb server and
see what happens...

Thanks

David