From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 23 13:01:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA13625 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 23 May 1996 13:01:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA13619 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 13:01:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA08125; Thu, 23 May 1996 12:54:21 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199605231954.MAA08125@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: X11R6.1 available... Should we use? To: dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (David Dawes) Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 12:54:21 -0700 (MST) Cc: jehamby@lightside.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199605230633.QAA13284@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> from "David Dawes" at May 23, 96 04:33:09 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree98 which seems to be a subset of xfree86, > >with no accompanying documentation! > > This is for the Japanese PC98 machines (which can run variants of FreeBSD, > NetBSD and SVR4). I don't personally know much about these machines, > other than that they are Intel-based, but have quite a different bus > architecture to AT-style machines. We should integrate the changes for PC98 support directly so that there is no need to have seperately maintained variants. This includes keyboard layout, etc., not just the obvious areas. Any Japanese takers? I have been unable to get a PC98 here in the US for this type of thing. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.