hmm, didnt it get broken somewhere in 1.4 and not get fixed until quite 
recently, something with newer wscons kbd and mouse support instead of 
the specific use of the serial lines directly? 
hmm, i want to give 1.3 a try with X on a 5k240! 
:-)

happy hacking,
isildur
a big fan of NetBSD 1.3.2

On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Paul Mather wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 01:09:28PM -0500, Lord Isildur wrote:
> 
> => X allegedly now works.. in 1.5 there were some patches or whatnot one had 
> => to apply, but people had it running. my netbsd/pmax machines run 
> => headless.. 
> 
> I had X running on my DECstation 3100 for quite a while.  We had X
> running on DECstation 5000/25s before that, although they suffered
> from "jumping mouse pointer" syndrome even under modest load.  I don't
> know if that was ever cured.
> 
> => i dont know if the lack of activity here is from nobody running these 
> => machines anymore (that would be a shame!) or from things Just Working..
> => maybe a quick show of hands to see who actually still a: reads port-pmax 
> => and b: runs a pmax (even with something other than NetBSD?)
> 
> I have a DECstation 3100 at home running some flavour of NetBSD
> 1.3-current that I used as an X server for my headless DEC 3000/300
> for ages.  Then, I acquired a retired IBM Model 7006 RS/6000 with a
> 24-bit display adapter that used to be in a CAD lab, and that now
> serves as my X server.  (The DECstation 3100 currently is packed away,
> alas.)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Paul.
> 
> e-mail: paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu
> 
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