Subject: Re: Anyone working on VS2000 sm X support?
To: Brian D Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/17/1998 09:39:33
At 09:23 PM 10/16/98 , Brian D Chase wrote:
>On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Boris Gjenero wrote:
>
>> I'm just wondering... is anybody working on X support for the standard
>> VS2000 monochrome frame buffer? I'm thinking of doing some work
>> myself. It shouldn't be hard, and it should certainly be less work than
>> QDSS. Had the driver been based on the QVSS driver (qv.c) it would have
>> been more-or less trivial.
>>
>> Of course, things just can't be that simple... The driver uses wscons,
>> so if I want to get to work on it I must deal with wscons too. Now I'm
>> wondering:
>
>> - Is there sufficient interrest in this for me to take on the task?
>
>I'm positive that there's a great deal of interest on getting X running
>for the older workstations. I think their may be more people running
>VS3100's at this stage than VS2000's, but I imagine that having X for
>anything would be a boon for NetBSD/vax.
However, since ULTRIX used the same X server for the VS2000 and the
VS3100 there should no reason why the same couldn't true for NetBSD.
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