NetBSD on SGI MIPS platforms (NetBSD/sgimips)

Georg Schwarz | 23 May 2010 22:53

X11 on O2?

I just finished a network install of NetBSD 5.0.2 on an O2 (really smooth, BTW, if you know how).
Now I wonder whether it can run an X server, and if so how I configure/evoke it?
X11 -configure did not yield any useful result.
This is probably a very easy question; unfortunately I was unable to find some information on it in the docs.

PS: my installation always drops into single user mode first on startup. I (in fact the installer) did set
rc_configured=YES in rc.conf.
Is there some additional mechanism specific to the SGI boot prom settings maybe?

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Stephen M. Rumble | 24 May 2010 00:21

Re: X11 on O2?

On May 23, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Georg Schwarz wrote:

> I just finished a network install of NetBSD 5.0.2 on an O2 (really smooth, BTW, if you know how).
> Now I wonder whether it can run an X server, and if so how I configure/evoke it?
> X11 -configure did not yield any useful result.
> This is probably a very easy question; unfortunately I was unable to find some information on it in the docs.

I don't have an o2, but you could try wading through the following thread:
    http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sgimips/2009/02/19/msg000424.html
I'm sure others can give a definitive answer.

> PS: my installation always drops into single user mode first on startup. I (in fact the installer) did set
rc_configured=YES in rc.conf.
> Is there some additional mechanism specific to the SGI boot prom settings maybe?

Is the PROM environment variable "OSLoadOptions" set to "auto"? If it isn't, we boot into single user.

Steve

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Michael | 24 May 2010 02:48

Re: X11 on O2?

Hello,

On May 23, 2010, at 6:21 PM, Stephen M. Rumble wrote:

> On May 23, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Georg Schwarz wrote:
>
>> I just finished a network install of NetBSD 5.0.2 on an O2 (really  
>> smooth, BTW, if you know how).
>> Now I wonder whether it can run an X server, and if so how I  
>> configure/evoke it?
>> X11 -configure did not yield any useful result.
>> This is probably a very easy question; unfortunately I was unable  
>> to find some information on it in the docs.
>
> I don't have an o2, but you could try wading through the following  
> thread:
>    http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sgimips/2009/02/19/msg000424.html
> I'm sure others can give a definitive answer.

The driver in 5.0 can't configure itself ( I only found out how to do  
that with non-PCI drivers much later ) - take a generic xorg.conf,  
contents of Monitor sections and video modes don't matter since the  
driver will use whatever the firmware sets up, only in 32bit colour.  
Replace the driver name in the Device section with 'crime'. That's it.
This will work only with NetBSD's default xorg in /usr/X11R7, pkgsrc  
xorg doesn't have the crime driver.

>> PS: my installation always drops into single user mode first on  
>> startup. I (in fact the installer) did set rc_configured=YES in

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