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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!news.doit.wisc.edu!psl.wisc.edu!128.104.200.15!ram From: ram@xor.epi.wisc.edu (Ram Bhamidipaty) Subject: how to get x to work on netbsd-0.9 without recompiling anything Message-ID: <RAM.93Sep7210622@xor.epi.wisc.edu> Lines: 40 Sender: news@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Physical Sciences Lab, UW-Madison Date: 08 Sep 1993 02:06:22 GMT I got X to work with NetBSD-0.9 without recompiling anything !!! Note that I installed Netbsd-0.9 from scratch. I did not use the upgrade path, if you did you may have to make some changes to this. It is possible. I'm using it as I write this. 1. As root cd /X386/lib/X11/etc and run ./x386install This will redo some of the stuff that was originally done when xfree was installed. 2. Edit the /etc/ttys to look like this: #console "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" pc3 on secure # on the i386, the 'console' line above should be commented out and # the following lines should be uncommented: # console "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" pc3 off secure vga "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" pc3 on secure 3. mknod /dev/vga c 12 0 ( I also removed /dev/console and made it a sym link to /dev/vga ) lrwxrwxr-x 1 root 3 Sep 7 19:07 /dev/console -> vga crw------- 1 ram 12, 0 Sep 7 19:10 /dev/vga 4. reboot. X should now work. I pretty sure this is what I did. Look in x386install to get some idea about what x386install does. Good luck. BTW, I haven't run into any problems with the new db format, but I'm sure I will. I've had X running for all for 20 mins so far :-). -Ram -- -------------- Ram Bhamidipaty use this ->ram@epidat.epi.wisc.edu Department of Preventive Medicine or this->ram%epidat.decnet@macc.wisc.edu University of Wisconsin, Madison Ignore the header. It might be wrong.