From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 17 13:18:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA10044 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:18:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA10006 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:18:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA07659; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:16:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:16:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Donn Miller cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running Linux X server on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <35D794D7.71F2BA22@bellatlantic.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Donn Miller wrote: > Hi > > Does anyone know if I can run an XServer compiled for Linux on FreeBSD > 2.2.7? No. The virtual console API is significanly different. > The reason is that there is an XServer for Linux that is not > available for my video chipset (SiS 5597). I tried it, but it said > something about ioctl not implemented, and it was also looking for > /etc/ttyX instead of /etc/ttyvX. I tried symlinking but that didn't > work. You should be able to get FreeBSD versions of your X server from wherever you got your Linux version; both Xi Graphics and XFree86 make FreeBSD binaries. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message