I've got a question. I just converted my AlphaStation 200 4/233 back to NetBSD from FreeBSD, and now I'm trying to get X going on it. The video board in it is an old S3 that's supported in 3.3.6 but not in 4.1.0.
When I did the system installation I told it to get and install X, but when I went to configure the X server I found there were no servers at all. Lots of stuff under /usr/X11R6, but no Xserver. So I went back to the installation instructions and it said the X servers are in a separate tarball, xserver.tgz. So I got that and unpacked it, but it only contains XalphaNetBSD, Xprt, rgb.db, and a generic Xserver man page. I was expecting the usual collection of two dozen 3.3.6 servers. Both XalphaNetBSD and Xprt don't understand -version, they respond with "Unrecognized option: -version" and the same long list of options, but no version ID. The NetBSD installation instructions say: "If you have installed the X Window System, look at the files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc for information." but that's an empty directory. ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.6/binaries/ has nothing for NetBSD newer than 1.3, which is quite old. So, any NetBSD expert out there want to offer some advice? Get the xsrc.tgz from NetBSD.org which purportedly can build both? Get the 3.3.6 source from XFree86.org and build it for NetBSD? Get a video board that 4.1.0 understands (I could scrounge up a Matrox Millenium II)? Get a newer (than 1.5.2) snapshot of the whole NetBSD system and upgrade? Who wants to offer advice? -- Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in the world in 1982. -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
