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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