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Xref: sserve comp.windows.x.i386unix:6549 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1830 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cyber2.cyberstore.ca!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!destroyer!news.cic.net!news.plexus.com!news.plexus.com!not-for-mail From: scottr@news.plexus.com (Scott Reynolds) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Has anybody built XFree86-2.0 on NetBSD-current (Jan 2)? Date: 15 Jan 1994 11:06:22 -0600 Organization: Plexus Corp. -- Neenah, Wisconsin Lines: 37 Message-ID: <2h97qe$of1@aspen.plexus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: aspen.plexus.com X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) I've been running XFree86-2.0 for about a month on a Zenith Z-433DX+ box (33MHz 486DX ISA). Recently I upgraded my kernel from an early Dec rev to the Jan 2 sources, and my X server quit accepting input from both the keyboard and the mouse. So, for the first time, I've broken out the handy X11R5 sources, patched them to pl26, added the XFree86 patch (minor, easily resolved conflicts in mit/clients/xterm), added the Type1 code and patches, and finally John Brezak's shlib patches. This all happened with only the most trivial of problems, and I *do* have the entire lib and extensions trees compiled to this point. However... When I try to compile a new server, I ran across two files that appar- ently were, but are no longer, in the /usr/include/machine directory: ioctl_pc.h and console.h. OK, no problem, I do have a machine/pccons.h, and it solves most of the problems. Then I get to server/ddx/ x386/common/x386Events.c, and the build fails because I don't have an ioctl(..., VT_ACTIVATE, ...). If I understand it correctly, the code allows support for multiple virtual displays if the OS supports it. I can comment out the offending lines and not worry since I don't have syscons in my kernel, but I hope that someone can make an "official" patch. What this all comes down to, in the end, is that I don't know how much further this build will go, or even if it will finish, much less whether it will actually work. Does anyone really know? Has it ever done? --Scott -- BITNET: SREYNOLD@NMUMUS Internet: scottr@plexus.com -- Scott Reynolds Assistant System Administrator Technology Group, Inc.