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4. Notes for running XFree86 on Solaris
- Depending on the release or architecture of Solaris you are running, you might
need to install an OS driver for an aperture device.
Under Solaris x86 2.5 and later, there's a system driver (/dev/xsvc)
that provides this functionality.
It will be detected automatically by the server, so you don't need to install
the aperture driver.
For older Solaris x86 and for Solaris SPARC releases, the source for this
driver is included in
xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/etc/apSolaris.shar of the source
distribution.
This file can usually also be found in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc
directory when XFree86 is installed.
Building, and installing the driver is relatively straight forward. Please read
its accompanying README file.
- 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.
- For Solaris you will probably want to set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to
/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/openwin/lib:/usr/dt/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.
Motif and CDE applications may require /usr/dt/lib in your
LD_LIBRARY_PATH too.
- 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)
- 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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