Subject: Re: X server on i386
To: Lyons, Kevin C. <KCLyons@ener.com>
From: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/22/2000 01:37:55
>Has anyone installed Xi graphics' X server and/or CDE on a NetBSD intel box?
you can run FreeBSD version of it by using COMPAT_FREEBSD.
see compat_freebsd(8) manpage for detail. you'll need FreeBSD shared
libraries in /emul/freebsd/lib.
little trick additionally necessary: you need to have
/emul/freebsd/dev/ttyv[04], to be symbolic link to wscons devices
(and I bet we need to enable wscons screens for them).
we may need to update manpage.
# cd /emul/freebsd/dev
# ln -s /dev/ttyE0 ttyv0
# ln -s /dev/ttyE4 ttyv4
>% ll /emul/freebsd/dev/
>total 0
>lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 Jun 19 17:27 ttyv0 -> /dev/ttyE0
>lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 Jun 19 17:28 ttyv4 -> /dev/ttyE4
itojun