Subject: Re: virtual terminals?
To: J. MacPhail <jrm@kw.igs.net>
From: Joshua Coombs <jcoombs@gwi.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/20/2004 12:05:04
> 1. X requirements.  The comments in /etc/defaults/rc.conf imply
that
> it is completely infeasible to run X with Wscons disabled.  Wrong!
> Right?

My SE/30 says you are right, X without wscons is not a problem.

> 2. Wscons feasibility.  From my troubles with wscons ("can't
allocate
> memory"), and a browse through earlier postings, I guess that
Wscons
> is not supported by any mac68k kernel.  True?

Correct.

> 3, DT desirability.  The DT package appears at ftp.netbsd.org as a
1.5
> package, but no later.  When I try to install the old package, I
find
> it wants an old library.  Though the PB160 is unattractive for
> recompilation, I could dig the old library out of the 1.5 install
> sets.  Before doing that, I am asking whether DT has disappeared
for
> any reason I should know.  Is there anything seriously wrong with
it?
> Did everybody move to Screen instead?  Or what?
>
> 4. Screen availability.  There does not seem to be a 1.6.1 Screen
> package.  How come?

Don't bother with packages, build each from a current pkg_src and
you'll be fine.  Myself I prefer screen, but I typically don't sit
at the console and instead do my work via ssh.

Joshua Coombs