Re: X problem on PMAGB-B

[Dave McGuire <mcguire%neurotica.com@localhost>]

On 11/12/25 19:20, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> +macallan
>
> > On Nov 12, 2025, at 4:10 PM, Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > It would not surprise me a bit if this involved breaking your PMAGB-B
> > support.  After all, it's not a peecee running Linux, so nobody cares
> > about it, right?
>
> Oh, c’mon, give them a bit of a break.  The X.org server NetBSD ships with supports lots of dumb linear frame buffers (some dumber than others!), largely because NetBSD people put in the effort.  It’s probably something fairly minor, or perhaps some bit-rot in the “wscons-ification” of the PMAGB-B driver (“sfb”, I think).

  Well, whatever it is, the PMAGB-B is hosed in 10.1.

  I installed the X11 sets from 7.2, and while the X server started up, 
I didn't get very far past that.  I ended up at a window that says 
"Session Menu" at the top, with a text box containing the string 
"chooseSessionListWidget", and "Default/Fail Safe" and "Cancel" buttons 
available.  Clicking the former ends up at a blank screen (well, just 
the X background stipple and xconsole.

  I'm thinking maybe I missed something.

  So to get around that as well as to get Ultrix 4.5 running (don't 
ask) I yanked out the PMAGB-B and installed a PMAG-B.  But of course the 
CRT won't sync to that.  That's when I got annoyed and headed home. 
I'll beat on it some more tomorrow.

  What would be very handy is if NetBSD's X would work on the PMAGB-B, 
and if gxemul would emulate the PMAGB-B.  That would get me through all 
of the projects I'm trying to finish on that machine.

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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