Re: XFree86 on Digital PWS600au

[Marco Beishuizen <mbeis%xs4all.nl@localhost>]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2016, the wise Marco Beishuizen wrote:

> Eventually, x11/modular-xorg-server fails to build with little 
> information. During the build of 
> ../work/xorg-server-1.18.4/hw/xfree86/os-support/bsd/alpha-video.lo it 
> exits. The only message I got was that "some warnings are handled as 
> errors". So I'd be happy if someone has a pointer what to do next.

I managed to install an Xorg version with the needed patches that are not 
in pkgsrc.

After that, in order to run X on NetBSD, the "options INSECURE" needed to 
be set (Xorg needs the sysctl kern.securelevel to be -1 or 0).

After rebuilding the GENERIC kernel with this option set though, X crashes 
immediately when running startx. That is, NetBSD exits immediately to the 
SRM console, without error logs in /var/log or core dumps. It doesn't 
look like a kernel panic either. Only messages in the SRM console are:
halt code = 6
double error halt

Regards,
Marco

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