Re: XFree86 on Digital PWS600au

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 12:26:28PM +0200, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2016, the wise matthew green wrote:
> 
> >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.
> >
> >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
> 
> I installed NetBSD by creating a cdrom. It was a complete installation, so
> including X. But the version of X looks weird to me: the binary is
> "XdecNetBSD" instead of XFree86 or Xorg, it doesn't have a config file, and
> there doesn't seem to be graphics drivers installed at all.
> 
> Rebuilding NetBSD is something I would like to avoid because that would take
> a week or so. Would it be better to install X from pkgsrc? Although I can't
> find a metapackage there for either XFree or Xorg.

I'm not sure X from pkgsrc will work on alpha (there may be patches in base
that are not in pkgsrc).

With the above command you can cross-compile NetBSD for alpha on a fast
x86 host, running a POSIX os (e.g. linux or os X, it doens't have to run
NetBSD).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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