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From: John Birrell  <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
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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)
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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.

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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

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