The following reply was made to PR port-alpha/31920; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Pavel Cahyna <pcah8322@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-alpha/31920: no XFree86 binary in alpha's xserver.tgz
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 23:19:49 +0200

 On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 01:24:00PM +0000, reinoud@netbsd.org wrote:
 > The current autobuild system doesn't build and release the XFree86 xserver 
 > itself but only XdecNetBSD and XalphaNetBSD whereas PCI based Alpha 
 > machines like the DEC PWS 500au require the XFree86 server for the generic 
 > graphic cards also found in i386 machines.
 
 This is duplicate of xsrc/29882.
 
  
 > I'm currently running :
 > 	XFree86 Version 4.4.0
 > 	Release Date: 29 February 2004
 > 	X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
 > 	Build Operating System: NetBSD/alpha 2.0_RC4 [ELF] The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
 > 	Build Date: 03 November 2004
 > 
 > wich i once compiled from the source tree myself. Its running fine so i 
 > think its just not enabled by default.
 
 It's apparently not so easy.