Re: Help - X.org or just any X11 on an SS20 with NetBSD

I have an SS20 (dual 125MHz Hypersparc) with a 4MB VSIMM and working cg14.
The NetBSD 4.0 X worked out of the box, but you have to use Xsun24 ... 
change the
sym link /usr/X11R6/bin/X to point to /usr/X11R6/bin/Xsun24 and try again.

Andy

Alexandre Lagüe-Jacques wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Two questions:
>
> (1) Has anyone successfully compiled and used X.org with 4.0.1 or 
> earlier on a SPARCstation 20 (SS20) or similar?  If so, how did you 
> procede?  (Moving to 5.0 is out of the question until the SMP issue is 
> resolved.)
>
> (2) Otherwise, has anyone managed to configure and run the X11 binary 
> sets included in 4.0.1 or earlier on a SS20 or similar?  Care to give 
> an XF86Config?
>
> I am trying to compile X.org on my SS20 SMP running NetBSD/sparc 4.0.1.
>
> (Will admit that the X11 binaries included in the 4.0.1 distribution 
> don't work "out of the box" and I wanted to give X.org a shot since 
> the said included binaries are based on XFree86 if I'm not mistaken.)
>
> Now it would appear to be possible.  I've found the following message 
> on the tech-x11 mailing list:
>
> http://www.nabble.com/Native-Xorg-on-sparc-confirmed-working-td20414633.html 
>
>
> I've also located the following howto:
>
> http://wiki.netbsd.se/How_to_install_modular_Xorg
>
> In the howto, one must 'make install' the modular-xorg-server package 
> in pkgsrc.  I've gotten pretty far, but the compiler produced errors 
> at 'xf86pciBus.lo' (directory 
> '/usr/pkgsrc/x11/modular-xorg-server/work/xorg-server-1.4.2/hw/xfree86/common' 
> and stopped.
>
> These questions may seem obvious to you, but I'm completely out of 
> touch with the details of X-Windows.  Moreover, I find the 
> documentation woefully inadequate for X11 on NetBSD/sparc.  (The 
> NetBSD documentation is generally excellent, but the specificities of 
> running X on a SPARC are missing as far as I can tell.)
>
> Also...  X11 under OpenBSD/sparc 4.5 works "out of the box" but the 
> kernel does not do SMP.  I'd imagine that there's a way to transplant 
> some of the elements but am not sure where to start.
>
> - Alex
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