Subject: Re: CVSup collections for a NetBSD CVS tree
To: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/03/1999 00:18:22
On Sun, 2 May 1999, Don Lewis wrote:
> On May 2, 9:03pm, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> } Actually, our "xsrc", which is XFree86-based, does in fact run on the VAX :-)
>
> This wasn't at all obvious to me when I looked around on
> <http://www.netbsd.org/>. I looked at
> <http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/vax/models.html> and it appeared to claim
> that all the graphics hardware on the various models was unsupported by
> NetBSD/vax. Support for the VS2000 and VS3100 monochrome graphics console
> is mentioned on <http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/vax/index.html>, but it says
> "No X yet, though". I also didn't see any mention of X11 support in the
> NetBSD/vax FAQ.
I believe the mouse and keyboard are not yet supported, so
although the NetBSD/vax xserver builds, it is of limited
usefulness so far. I'm sure it will be announced when fully
supported :)
David/absolute
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