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.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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