5 Notes for running XFree86 on Solaris x86

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1. If you have not made the Virtual Terminal devices, you will need to specify the terminal device to run the Xserver on. The correct device is vt00 so your xinit command would look like so:

                   xinit -- vt00
   

   If you have made the virtual terminal devices you do not need to specify the VT to run the Xserver on.

2. For Solaris you will probably want to set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/openwin/lib. Including /usr/X11R6/lib in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH is probably not necessary, however it doesn't hurt. :)

   Including /usr/openwin/lib in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH is recommended because some Sun supplied binaries were not compiled with LD_RUN_PATH set properly at compile time.

3. Xqueue is NOT supported under Solaris. The includes necessary for Xqueue are available, however the driver does not seem to be in the kernel. (Go figure)

4. If you want to use xdm with Solaris, extract the files from the shar file in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/XdmConf.svr4 into a temporary directory. The README file tells where the individual files need to be installed. Be sure to read through each file and make any site-specific changes that you need.

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