Re: XFree86 on Digital PWS600au

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hello,

On Wed, 07 Sep 2016 06:08:53 +1000
matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> wrote:

> > Umm, which Xserver did you try to run? 7.0.1 has Xorg 1.10 which should
> > dump a little more information than you posted. Is there
> > a /var/run/Xorg.0.log?
> 
> actually, alpha in 7 defaults to XF86:
> 
> .if \
>     ${MACHINE} == "acorn32"     || \
>     ${MACHINE} == "alpha"       || \
>     ${MACHINE} == "amiga"       || \
>     ${MACHINE} == "mac68k"      || \
>     ${MACHINE} == "pmax"        || \
>     ${MACHINE} == "sun3"
> X11FLAVOUR?=    XFree86
> .else
> X11FLAVOUR?=    Xorg
> .endif
> 
> though everything worked last i heard, except for Xalpha, which has the
> tc-framebuffers supported, but all the newer systems should work with
> xorg 1.10.

Huh, I thought tsutsui-san's work made it into 7.0

> Marco, are you able to build netbsd?  building with X11FLAVOUR=Xorg
> should work.  eg:
> 
>    % cd src
>    % ./build.sh -V X11FLAVOUR=Xorg -O /var/obj/alpha -j4 -Uu -m alpha -x -X /usr/xsrc release
> 
> or so.

Yeah, at least some PCI graphics cards should work. I know we made
permedia2 work.

have fun
Michael