Re: X.org and A1200 AGA Graphics

[Daniel Doran <danielktdoranie%icloud.com@localhost>]

Hi Carlos,

That is awesome. I will try this and report back. Great work.

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> On 1 Oct 2021, at 00:45, Carlos Milán Figueredo <cmilanf%hispamsx.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone!
> 
> I am new on this list. I have an Amiga 1200 with a TF1260 accelerator board that provides a 68060 CPU (rev6 in my case), 128 MB of FAST MEM and a faster IDE interface that is not mandatory to use. I installed NetBSD on it and I am really happy on how it works. I can even SSH into my Amiga from the PC [1], yay!
> 
> From: Daniel Doran <danielktdoranie%icloud.com@localhost>
> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2021 17:00:44 +0100
>> If so is there anyway to get X Windows going on an Amiga A1200?
> 
> As you noted, X11R7 in NetBSD works with wsfb that sadly, doesn't support native chipset, but as Björn pointed out, it is possible to get old Xamiga X11R6 server from the latest release of NetBSD 7.0.x and use it on current release. You can see a capture I did here [2].
> 
> High level instructions to get it working:
>    1. Download xserver.tgz package from here [3]
>    2. Unpack it on / as any set.
>    3. Modify your $PATH variable to point to X11R6 instead of X11R7.
>    4. Create a new file: /etc/X11/XF86Config with the contents of [4]
>    5. Logout your session and login again.
>    6. Run "# startx -- -width 640 -height 480 -depth 4". The X will load nicely.
> 
> Regards,
> Carlos
> 
> [1] https://i.postimg.cc/W4d88nyZ/242863803-10226848012043961-1098958704102662350-n.jpg
> [2] https://twitter.com/cmilanf/status/1432105730102943749/photo/1
> [3] http://archive.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-archive/NetBSD-7.0.2/amiga/binary/sets/xserver.tgz 
> [4]    Section "InputDevice"
>        Identifier "Keyboard0"
>        Driver "kbd"
>        Option "Device" "/dev/kbd0"
>    EndSection
> 
> Carlos Milán Figueredo
> HispaMSX System Operator
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