Re: XFree86 on Digital PWS600au

[Marco Beishuizen <mbeis%xs4all.nl@localhost>]

On Wed, 7 Sep 2016, the wise Mouse wrote:

> > I installed NetBSD by creating a cdrom.  It was a complete 
> > installation, so including X.  But the version of X looks weird to me: 
> > the binary is "XdecNetBSD" instead of XFree86 or Xorg, it doesn't have 
> > a config file, and there doesn't seem to be graphics drivers installed 
> > at all.
>
> This sounds a whole lot like MIT X, before the current Xorg/Xfree/etc 
> fork.  How that would have got into a NetBSD install CD, I don't know, 
> unless it's a really old NetBSD version, but all the symptoms described 
> match.

I installed NetBSD/alpha 7.0, later upgraded to 7.0.1. I also tried to 
install Xorg from pkgsrc today but that failed with an install error in 
x11/fixesproto4.

X on an alpha is a tough cookie.

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