Re: Missing X binary

[D Walton <walton.david%sky.com@localhost>]

Well done!

> On 3 Dec 2021, at 23:34, David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> OK, after a selection of minor issues - gxemul now runs X11 from a
> current NetBSD/pmax build
> 
> https://twitter.com/abs0/status/1466899301427257347 (as I can't
> usefully send a screenshot to the list :)
> 
> So issues:
> - Working out the seemingly random set of files to tweak to get pmax
> to build xf86-video-wsfb
> - Finding out that Xorg 1.20 won't build, so switching pmax to using
> 1.10 (similar to vax)
> - X failing to start due to missing WSDISPLAYIO_GET_FBINFO support in
> the cfb driver (now added)
> - Xorg 1.10 is missing the uxterm binary used by the default ctwmrc
> (which is _really_ annoying, if trivial to workaround)
> - Thinking the keyboard mapping is all to hell, until I realised that
> the key marked <X] sends The Correct Sequence To Delete A Character,
> not ^H
> 
> Anyway, I'm going to run up a full release build with ISO, and then
> upload it with some brief notes in case anyone else wants to have a
> play (which will be tomorrow now as I'm currently enjoying a power cut
> with a less than full laptop battery), then look to get it in-tree for
> the next NetBSD version.
> 
> David
> 
>> On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 21:08, David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 18:59, Parodper <parodper%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>>> 
>>> O 01/12/21 ás 19:26, David Brownlee escribiu:
>>>> On Sun, 31 Oct 2021 at 10:28, Parodper <parodper%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I was playing around on gxemul with a DECstation 3MAX VM, and found out,
>>>>> when trying to startx, that the xserver.tgz set does not include the
>>>>> eponymous X server.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Am I missing something, or is it just not included?
>>>> 
>>>> It looks like it dropped out during an upgrade of the Xorg version
>>>> between NetBSD-7 and NetBSD-8 (probably when XAA acceleration support
>>>> was dropped). As it happens it should be possible to run a generic
>>>> Xwsfb X server, similar to VAX.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the answer. Will try that when I have the time.
>>> 
>>>> However, unless I miss my guess, gxemul doesn't actually emulate
>>>> DECstation display hardware, so an X server may not help you.
>>> 
>>> http://gavare.se/gxemul/gxemul-stable/doc/machine_decstation.html#netbsdpmaxinstall
>>> does show twm, but that info was last updated on NetBSD 7.1.2
>> 
>> Aha - thanks for the pointer!
>> 
>> OK, so the NetBSD-7.1 ISO failed to boot for me under gxemul, but I
>> was able to boot and install the latest netbsd-HEAD from
>> http://nyftp.netbsd.org/ and then use it to mount the NetBSD-7.1 ISO
>> and extract the sets into /altroot
>> 
>> A quick 'chroot /altroot' and 'export PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH' then
>> 'startx' and the glory of twm is revealed.
>> 
>> Let me tweak a copy of the NetBSD tree to build an Xwsfb server and
>> see what happens...
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> David