Re: X and NetBSD Stable branch (alpha port)

[Marco Beishuizen <mbeis%xs4all.nl@localhost>]

On Sun, 23 Oct 2016, the wise Michael wrote:

> X in -current should work on (some?) PCI alphas, I don't know to what 
> extent or which drivers have been tested though. The glint driver should 
> work ( I assisted in making that happen a while ago ), possibly the 
> radeon driver, but that's about it, as far as I know. Please test and 
> report.

I managed to install NetBSD 7.99.40. After that I've rebuilt a new kernel 
with "options INSECURE" turned on. Afaik X needs this to set the 
securelevel to -1.

But this didn't work out very well. The new kernel caused networkproblems 
and X still didn't start (Failed to load 
/usr/X11R7/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.so: ... Undefined symbol 
"MGAPolyArcThinSolid" (symnum = 122)).

The machine has a Matrox G450PCI in it and is recognized correctly in SRM 
and by the kernel as well.

So went back to the GENERIC kernel included in 7.99.40, which is working 
fine for now, and investigating further how to install X.

Regards,
Marco

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