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From: veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: NetBSD with codrv support?
Message-ID: <1993Jun9.161440.19102@gmd.de>
Keywords: NetBSD, codrv, pccons, XFree86, xdm
Sender: veit@mururoa (Holger Veit)
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Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany
References: <1993Jun9.145312.14008@fys.ruu.nl>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1993 16:14:40 GMT
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In article <1993Jun9.145312.14008@fys.ruu.nl>, verleun@fys.ruu.nl (Vincent Verleun) writes:
|> Hi all,
|>
|> There's this little problem I'm having with NetBSD which I would like to
|> see solved. I'm running NetBSD0.8 with XFree86-1.2 for about a week now,
|> and I must say; I'm impressed, it's a beautiful system, as long as I
|> don't use XDM!
|> I'm aware that the NetBSD kernel has the standard 'pccons' driver and
|> that this is the key to all the XDM trouble. I know I should use the
|> 'codrv' driver, but since I don't have enough disk space to carry the
|> NetBSD sources, I can't rebuild the kernel for the 'codrv' driver.
|> Or is there another way to replace the console driver? If not, could
|> someone please tell me if there's a NetBSD kernel with the 'codrv'
|> driver available from FTP?
The current version of my codrv is codrv-0.1.2-110593.tar.z, e.g. from
ftp.uni-duisburg.de:/pub/unix/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/codrv.
The same directory also has files x[cm]_012.z which are tar files with
a suitable color/mono xserver and a kbd_mode "replacement" :-)
(Look into this archive to understand the smiley).
codrv-0.1.2 has been reported to run with NetBSD-0.8, but needs a fix
for vm_mmap.c to run the xserver correctly. Several problems due to
changed data and filestructure layouts have been reported for NetBSD-0.8a.
Since I do not run NetBSD, and am not willing to follow all the
major and minor modifications in the NetBSD sources all day, I leave the
job to port codrv-0.1.2 to another operating system to anyone else
who is interested in this. I would however be willing to collect the
changes and coordinate them into a codrv-NetBSD update, but I cannot
supply probably special configured kernels for NetBSD.
|> I did try to replace the kernel with a 'kernel-1.2.codrv-fix-1' which
|> was included in the XFree86-1.2 distribution, but that didn't work (not
|> even with the codrv-Xserver).
|> (The suplied 'kernel-1.2.pccons-fix-1' didn't work either, only the
|> original NetBSD kernel with the pccons-Xserver works.)
|> Let me state that I'm not a UNIX whiz (but then you probably gathered
|> that from my questions, which BTW hopefully aren't FAQs :) ).
|>
|> Thanx in advance,
|> Vince.
|>
|> --
|> Vincent Verleun verleun@fys.ruu.nl.
|> Utrecht University Physics Department Data Acquisiton Group.
|> Buys Ballotlab 063b, Princetonplein 5, 3584 CC Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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