Subject: Re: Wscons in NetBSD 3
To: None <macallan@netbsd.org>
From: victor <plumsaren@gmail.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/31/2006 14:54:16
On Monday 30 January 2006 20:48, Michael Lorenz wrote:
> Now that you have a working wscons system you can - if you feel like it
> - run XFree86 with acceleration. Binaries can be found in any recent
> -current snapshot on releng.netbsd.org. I know it works on sparc64 but
> none of my 32bit SPARCs has a cg6 or even an SBus slot.
>
> All you'd need to do to get it to work is (hopefully):
> - have /usr/X11R6/bin/X point to XFree86
> - run X -configure to get a config file
> - add 'DefaultDepth 8' to the 'Screen' section ( X defaults to 16 bit
> which the cg6 doesn't support, didn't find out how to get around that
> yet )
> - save the config file as /etc/X11/XF86Config
> - startx
I untarred the necessary files from releng.netbsd.org, but there's no Xfree86
file in /usr/X11R6/bin/ for /usr/X11R6/bin/X to point at... By default X
points at Xsun, do I have to create the Xfree86 file manually?