Re: Running X on the Dreamcast

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

Is there a particular version of X that is known to work on the
Dreamcast? That might help me narrow down my inability to run it.

Thanks!

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Travis Paul <Tr%vispaul.me@localhost> wrote:
> 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