Re: Running X on the Dreamcast

[Travis Paul <Tr%vispaul.me@localhost>]

Hi Israel,
I did just attempt the following process in an attempt to kill xinit
after it hangs and get some more information (sorry my grep and awk
skills needs some polishing):

# sleep 360 && kill -9 `ps | grep xinit | awk '{print $1}' | head -n 1` &
# xinit

I tried the same hack with "top" and it was killed but it does not
seem to work with "xinit". I may need to find a way to interface the
serial port on the back of the dreamcast. If anyone knows of any
documentation on how to do that, that they could point me to that
would be great.


On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 7:32 PM, Israel Jacquez <mrkotfw%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> Could you somehow see if the applications are segfaulting?
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Travis Paul <Tr%vispaul.me@localhost> wrote:
>> Hello port-dreamcast,
>>
>> I'm having some trouble running X on my Dreamcast.
>>
>> I've cross-built NetBSD and X (using the netbsd_7 branch) and burned
>> it to disk using dc-burn-netbsd. I've used the example dreamcast
>> xorg.conf file (http://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/external/mit/xorg/etc/etc.dreamcast/xorg.conf.uskbd)
>> and I'm able to run xinit successfully and I see the usual gray
>> background and "X" cursor.
>>
>> Now, I can't seem to make any further progress after running xinit.
>> Creating an .xinitrc file with a simple program (xclock, xterm, etc)
>> causes the dreamcast to start X, show the default background and "X"
>> cursor and then it never loads the programs listed in the .xinitrc. Is
>> there anyone out there that has X running on the dreamcast that could
>> share some wisdom to get me going?
>>
>> Some things worth noting:
>> * The total memory reported by top is only 5916k, shouldn't I have 16MB?
>> * I have built the kernel with the INSECURE option. (I believe this is
>> required for X to run)
>> * I am unable to use Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to quit X.
>> * When I running X -config /path/to/xorg.conf the "X" cursor somewhat
>> responds to the dreamcast mouse, when I run xinit it does not.
>>
>> Any help or guidance is appreciated, thanks,
>> Travis Paul