Subject: Re: Rebuild an X11 server
To: Kevin Ogden <kev@zebradale.com>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/19/1998 18:28:31
Kevin Ogden wrote:
> 
> >>
> >> I believe.  It's quite large, but it includes the mac68k stuff.  Where'd
> >> you get the other file?
> >
> >Quite large ??? Too large for me :-(
> >I got the other file, on a "xfree86-3.31" mirror site
> >ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/X11/XFree86 in France....
> >But I think you can other mirror at http://www.xfree86.org/
> >
> >Another thing : I saw that id software released the sources of
> >linux-doom-1.10. I'm trying to get it working under NetBSD, without
> >X11... But I got problem b/c I can't change CLUT.... Any Idea ??
> 
> The problem is that X under NetBSD/mac68k is not a port of XFree86, XFree86
> is a port to x86-based UN!X's.

Actually, X under NetBSD/mac68k _is_ a port of XFree86 (as of about a
year ago, anyway). However, the NetBSD changes haven't been ported back to
the XFree86 tree (yet?). That's why you won't find the mac68k-specific
stuff in the XFree86 tree.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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