Subject: Re: Installing X11 on Ultra 1
To: Konrad Neitzel <neitzel@neitzel.de>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 12/01/2004 22:14:21
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:58:40PM +0200, Konrad Neitzel wrote:
> Hi All!
> 
> Sorry, that I need to bother you again:
> 
> I installed NetBSD on my Sparc Ultra 1 and it boots up nicely.
> 
> Now I wanted to install X, but I have little problems finding some kind
> of documentation, what to do:
> 
> 1) NetBSD Documentation is nice and points me to some XFree86 stuff
> (Chapter 9 - X). It is said, that most ports will work without
> configuration ... It is not working. When I am starting the server, he
> is always missing the screen section.
> In /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 should be a Config file with .eg: Nothing.
> xf86cfg -> not their.


Which server are you trying to start ? You should start Xsun.
Also, make sure the kernel finds the video adapter. Look at the output of
'dmesg'.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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