Subject: Re: X on Turbo Channel system
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: Konrad Schroder <perseant@hhhh.org>
List: port-alpha
Date: 09/07/1999 14:55:03
Matthias Drochner wrote:

> ross@teraflop.com said:
> > one is a non-TGA TC  (Turbochannel) frame buffer, and the other thing
> > is the X server written for netbsd for PCI TGA devices. 
> 
> So is there an X server for TC alphas at all?

I don't recall there ever being one for TC alphas.  I did some work on
this a couple of weeks ago, after coming to the conclusion that I needed a
64-bit NetBSD compilation platform, and that the 3000/300s we're using as

But, I gave up because I couldn't figure out how to mux the wscons
keyboard output to be able to open it from the X server, and lack of time
to really get into the wscons code to find out.  (OTOH I'd already
translated the FBIO* stuff to WSDISPLAYIO* and modified the X server to
something that might work someday, if I can open the keyboard.)

If someone can show me how to get the wscons muxing business done, I may
be able to spend some time working on this....

						Konrad Schroder
						perseant@hhhh.org