Subject: Re: Rebuild an X11 server
To: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
From: Kevin Ogden <kev@zebradale.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/19/1998 22:35:07
At 06:28 PM 1/19/98 -0800, Colin Wood wrote:
>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.

oh ok... I thought the mac68k X-server was another X-server entirely...my
mistake.

		Kevin