Re: O2: XFree86 or X.org?

[Michael Lorenz <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Jul 30, 2008, at 08:10, Jorge Acereda Maciá wrote:

> Which X flavour should I install on the O2? I've seen some messages  
> in the archives about some recent developments affecting the O2,  
> but I don't know if those refer to XFree86 or X.org.

Xorg doesn't even compile.
If you want X on the O2 install the binary packages from  
ftp.netbsd.org and grab a few experimental replacements here: ftp:// 
ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/macallan/sgimips
You need libxaa.so and crime_drv.so - put them into their respective  
places under /usr/X11R6/lib, you may have to delete some old binaries  
( like .la files )
XFree86.sgimips is a sample configuration file for XFree86.
Also, you can just grab the X packages from the same directory but  
you still need to replace libxaa.so and crime_drv.so

With that you should get accelerated X in 32bit colour with a few  
glitches ( as I said, vertical scroll bars in KDE and gtk2 look  
funky, some pictures in konqueror aren't rendered right ) but it's  
enough to run stuff like your not too fancy window manager of choice  
( I tried windowmaker, fvwm2 and a few others, kwin works fine too )  
plus a bunch or terminals ( anti-aliased text works fine and uses the  
rendering engine whenever possible )

I don't think anyone has ever tested this on an R10k O2 though, there  
might things that bite you in the rear end.

have fun
Michael

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