Subject: X server for sparc
To: Dennis Ferguson <dennis@ans.net>
From: Daniel Carosone <danielce@ee.mu.oz.au>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/21/1994 11:03:36
Dennis Ferguson writes:
> I wanted an X server for NetBSD on an SS IPX, and after seeing
> nothing else around I thought I'd try compiling X11R6 with the
> Sun server to see if it would work (which I didn't actually expect,
> but I thought I'd try anyway). After poking at it for a while
> to get it to compile, I ended up with 240 Mb less disk space and
> with a server which actually gets as far as clearing the screen before
> emitting a 3.6Mb core dump from a segmentation fault in the keyboard
> initialization code.
>
> In any case, I'm still interested in acquiring an X server for the
> machine if one exists or can be built. Is anyone running an X server
> on a sparc machine with a NetBSD of fairly recent vintage? If so,
> where would be a good place to find the server? If someone has
> tried X11R6 and managed to get the server past the keyboard initialization,
> I'd be interesting in hear about that too.
Put SUNOS_COMPAT in your kernel and run a SunOS server :)
I'm not running it, my sparc is headless, thankfully.
--
Dan.
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