On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Frank van der Linden wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 02:36:24PM -0800, David Brownlee wrote:
> > 	     o XF86Setup is not included - previously with xf86 this has
> > 	       made configuring the system considerably easier...
> > 	       In fact I could not find any notes on how to setup X.
> > 	       (I ended up using my old Config & server)
> 
> That needs tk/tcl, right? Since that's not included in NetBSD,
> xf86setup can't be either (correct me if I'm wrong; I've never
> actually used xf86setup). Although it is statically linked
> I think, but that still means you can't rebuild it from source,
> from a plain installation, which should be possible.
> 
	(For reference: copying /usr/X11R6/{bin,lib/X11}/XF86Setup from an
	old binary distribution just works...)
	Maybe it could be made dependant on the tk/tcl package in pkgsrc?
	:)

> Docs: the X sets are just plain XFree86, compiled from our X source tree.
> The XFree86 docs are applicable, although you're right that they should
> have been pointed to more clearly.
> 
	X11 on some ports should Just Work (sparc), while others need
	inordinate amount of setup (i386), so the primary X11 doc may
	need to be MD...

> > 	     o The XF86_SVGA server does not have the XKEYBAORD extension.
> > 	       I have both a UK keyboard plus a preference for making the
> > 	       CapsLock key another Ctrl key, and the XKEYBAORD extension is
> > 	       a very easy way of doing this.
> 
> XKB? That is compiled in by default, strange that it should not work for you.

	Hmm - am download xsrc, will try to see if I can compile up the
	servers plus a copy of XF86Setup and see if it still reports the
	error...

	Thanks

		David/absolute

          .:. "I'm not an angel... I'm not that quaint..." .:.