Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.6 and XFree 3.3.6
To: Olivier Cherrier <oc@karedas.cediti.be>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: tech-x11
Date: 12/30/2002 21:45:50
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Olivier Cherrier wrote:

> I installed NetBSD 1.6 on a quite old i386 laptop
> with a Cirrus Logic CL-7543 video card. This latter one
> is not supported by XFree86 4.2.1.
>  (http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.1/Status9.html#9)
>
> Is there a common way to install the 3.3.6 version
> of XFree with the 4.2.1 or need I to do it manually?

Yes, there is an xservers package for just that purpose, and there
are even binaries for NetBSD 1.5/i386 and 1.6/i386. See:

  ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/x11/xservers/README.html

Regards,

Frederick