On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:37:27PM -0600, Ted Spradley wrote: > 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.
This is the X server for TGA boards, it's not XFree. I don't think NetBSD support X out of the box on VGA adapters. Someone was working on getting XFree running on NetBSD/alpha, but I don't know what the status is. -- Manuel Bouyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
