On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 04:47:14PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 08:48:20PM -0700, Jake Bishop wrote: > > Hello, > > Is X windows working under Hurd? > > ... > > Please fetch the X packages from: > > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnu/hurd/debian/ > > There are debs of XFree86 3.3.3, but only clients and libs. Always set > > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/X11R6/lib > > Correct the variable setting in /bin/X11/xmkmf and gccmakedep. (Remove space > in `varname= "value"'. > > No servers yet. Don't ask to help with the servers if you aren't a Hurd or > GNU/Mach hacker (or wanna-be :)
Hi Marcus, This is remarkable that you did not answer the original question: > > Is X windows working under Hurd? I took all the packages which I found in alpha.gnu.org .../debian dpkg -i xbase_*.deb told that it wants xmp which wants nmh | mh which are not available, and that it wants rstart(d) which wants netstd which is also not available. More complaints were about xproxy and xserver-common; are all those things supposed to be somewhere? After I did not find xf86config and XF86_XXXX, I got upset and went to ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.3.1/binaries/Hurd and grabbed some things: Xbin.tgz, Xlib.tgz, XVG16.tgz, and XMa64.tgz, plus preinst.sh and postinst.sh. (I did not install Xlib.tgz which is presumably older than xlib6g_3.3.3.1-4_hurd-i386.deb, until I saw that there was nothing to lose.) xf86config ran alright, and I went to the stage when I can run startx or something and read the error messages. Here they are: : Can not open keyboard (no such file or directory) : : _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't get addres for hurd : Giving up This was with GNUmach-1.1.90/Hurd-0.2 kernel (is it fresh enough?), with both XF86_VGA16 and XF86_Mach64. I hoped that you might know whether I am stuck with something straightforward; what am I to do? Thank you, a. PS. As to the rest of the installation, hurd (untarred gnu-19990505) runs smoothly on K6-2 300, RAM=64MB, at around 800MB partition, swapping onto Linux's 128MB swap partition [after I changed the last line in /boot/servers.boot to /dev/hd0s5 $(add-raw-paging-file) $(default-pager) ], and I even use emacs (emacs20) to edit things and mount some small linux partition (~150MB, /dev/hda6) with settrans /linux /boot/ext2fs /dev/hd0s6 (settrans -g /linux -- to unmount; this is just a memo for myself). What's not quite perfect is that hurd complains that its partition was not smoothly unmounted (no crashes; I only say `reboot'), runs fsck and throws me to a single mode, and that I should avoid accidental touching /dev with ls -l and du -s The only weird thing I needed to do was to untar Poor Man's sysvinit from sysvinit.tar.gz (posted by Marcus a few days ago), and then to fake dselect that it was a *.deb-file (adding "install ok installed" things to /var/lib/dpkg/status file..), so that bsdutils and friends would install smoothly. Nice thing; I only wish there'd be pppd or at least minicom.. -- Looking for a Linux-compatible V.90 modem? See http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modems
