Re: NetBSD/atari Xserver (Was: pushing netbsd-5)

["David Ross" <dross%pobox.com@localhost>]

I'll test this out a bit soon as well.  I think I tried getting X to work 
once but got stuck and didn't put much effort into it at the time.  It would 
be nice to get it working though.

David Ross
dross%pobox.com@localhost



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T. Makinen" <tjamaloo%gmail.com@localhost>
To: "David Brownlee" <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>
Cc: <dross%pobox.com@localhost>; <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>; 
<port-atari%netbsd.org@localhost>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: NetBSD/atari Xserver (Was: pushing netbsd-5)


> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:15 AM, David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost> 
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, T. Makinen wrote:
> >
> > > I've updated NetBSD/atari page about recent fixes and changes. Maybe we
> > > should do another announcement when RC1 is available :)
> >
> >        Looks good.
> >
> >        On another topic - it looks like a working Xserver would
> >        be quite a compelling factor for NetBSD/atari users.
>
> Yes, X would be nice to have.
>
> >        1.6.1 was the last NetBSD release which shipped with an
> >        Xserver, (XF68_FBDev from X11R6.3), which was never ported
> >        forward:
> >
> >
> >  ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-archive/NetBSD-1.6.1/atari/binary/sets/
> >
> >        XF68_FBDev is a 'raw' framebuffer driver. The two options
> >        would be to port it forward to the latest xorg, or adjust
> >        the atari grf device to we wsdisplay compatible so it could
> >        run the generic wsdisplay Xserver.
> >
> >        David/Tuomo - have you tried running the 1.6.1 Xserver on
> >        a NetBSD-5.0 install? It should be possible to:
> >        - perform a clean NetBSD 5.0 install including the X sets
> >        - Install pkgsrc/emulators/compat16
> >        - download the 1.6.1 sets and extract ./usr/X11R6/bin/XF68_FBDev
> >          from xserver.tgz only and try running it
> >
> >        :)
>
> I have not tried running 1.6.1 Xserver on NetBSD, but I'll try it some 
> time
> soon :)
>
> -Tuomo