From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jun 24 14:06:12 1998 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA28687 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:06:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA28601 for <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org>; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:05:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) id HAA04798; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 07:14:25 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Message-Id: <199806242114.HAA04798@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: NetBSD (and FreeBSD) video support In-Reply-To: <19980624155104.A23195@frenzy.com> from William Bradford at "Jun 24, 98 03:51:04 pm" To: mrbill@frenzy.com (William Bradford) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 07:14:25 +1000 (EST) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org William Bradford wrote: > Damn. I'll give it a shot anyway, but if I cant get X of some kind running, > I may not be able to help much, since the box is my primary machine. 8-( This is why god invented i386 machines - to use as X terminals for X server disadvantaged operating systems like NetBSD/Alpha. 8-) 8-) X clients work fine on NetBSD/Alpha and FreeBSD/Alpha. Doug Rabson is aware of the bus access methods that allow Linux/Alpha to use the i386 XFree servers which don't support the NetBSD bus access methods. This means that FreeBSD/Alpha will eventually be able to support all the X servers that Linux/Alpha does. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message