Re: X11 on O2?

On May 23, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Georg Schwarz wrote:

> I just finished a network install of NetBSD 5.0.2 on an O2 (really smooth, BTW, if you know how).
> Now I wonder whether it can run an X server, and if so how I configure/evoke it?
> X11 -configure did not yield any useful result.
> This is probably a very easy question; unfortunately I was unable to find some information on it in the docs.

I don't have an o2, but you could try wading through the following thread:
    http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sgimips/2009/02/19/msg000424.html
I'm sure others can give a definitive answer.

> PS: my installation always drops into single user mode first on startup. I (in fact the installer) did set rc_configured=YES in rc.conf.
> Is there some additional mechanism specific to the SGI boot prom settings maybe?

Is the PROM environment variable "OSLoadOptions" set to "auto"? If it isn't, we boot into single user.

Steve