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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!uknet!mcsun!goya!tornasol!jgb From: jgb@inf.uc3m.es Subject: Re: Xfree 1.3 work with NetBSD 0.9? Message-ID: <CEu8Bx.8Ln@inf.uc3m.es> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1993 13:33:33 GMT References: <1993Oct10.025253.6285@serval.net.wsu.edu> Organization: Departamento de Ingenieria - Universidad Carlos III - Madrid (Spain) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] Lines: 41 Mark Smith (msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu) wrote: > Will Xfree 1.3 as posted on agate.berkeley.edu under > /pub/386BSD/0.1-ports/XFree86-1.3 work on a NetBSD 0.9 system?!? I > kinda would like to know before I spend 2 hours downloading the stuff. As long as I know, you can use XFree-86-1.3u1, as found in agate, with NetBSD 0.9, and it 'almost' works. You can use the 'usual' installation procedure for 386bsd (as described in XFree documentation), and after that type a couple of lines: > cd /dev > MAKEDEV vga > mv console console.old (ok., rm also works, but I'm a bit conservative...) > ln -s vga console This works, at least for me. Don't bother about the "configure" script of XFree telling you the kernel 'has no X support' or something like that: it has. The only problems I've seen with this approach have been: 1. Stuff that uses dbm doesn't work (e.g., xdm). I think this is because of the 'new dbm' included with NetBSD 0.9. 2. tty windows hang about once a day... Don't know why. I saw something about it in the news, and I think it is solved in the 'comming soon' XFree-86 2.0... But I'm not sure. Anyway, this is something you can live with (at least I can). You have to go out of XWindow, and in again... About the binary release for NetBSD 0.9, in sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu, I think that problem no. 1 should be solved. Don't know about no.2. I'm going to try it this week or so... Hope all this verborrea helps... Jesus. jgb@inf.uc3m.es