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From: dhess@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Drew Hess)
Subject: NetBSD 0.9 and XFree86-1.3
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Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, California, USA
Date: 28 Aug 93 17:29:09 GMT
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I just installed NetBSD 0.9 and then grabbed the XFree86-1.3u1 distribution
on sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu.  The XFree86 install program complains that the
kernel has no support for X, and running xstart confirms this; the output
complains that neither codrv nor pccons support is present.

I recall reading that codrv is not compatible with NetBSD 0.9.  But why
wasn't pccons support included in the stock GENERICISA kernel?  (Or am
I doing something wrong?)  Does this mean that to run XFree86-1.3 on NetBSD 0.9
I'm gonna have to recompile the kernel with either codrv or pccons before
I can run XFree86-1.3?

thanks

-dwh-
dhess@cs.stanford.edu