[SunRescue] Anyone know of a X11 port for the ancient SparcBook2?

[BSD Bob]

> > I was wondering if anyone knew of a X11R6 or R5 port maybe for the old
> > Tadpole SparcBook2 machines?  Any pointers are appreciated.
> 
> Have you looked through the XFree stuff? I know people who run their
> version of X on other SPARC machines. It's much smaller and faster
> than Xsun because it doesn't include all the DPS stuff, which although
> it's very nice isn't used by anyone.

I will check around the XFree stuff.  What I was hoping for was that
there might be an existent R3/4/5/6 port available somewhere.

> I'm sure that there were PDF hardware manuals available for the SB3s
> at one time. Maybe there are SB2 manuals somewhere, so you could work
> out if any hacking needs doing.

I have never seen any.  I was in contact with the Tadpole folks in
England, and the 2 was basically forgotten lore.  IFF you know of
any SparcBook2 materials or archives around, do holler.  It is
rather much different from the common and later SparcBook3 toys.

> Building X from source is not something I'd recommend you undertake
> lightly, though. ;)

Well, if it did not require biggie coding tweaks, but would build out
of an existing source, that is no problem.  Tweaking sources from
scratch with no manuals or docs is not my forte.

Anyone else know any SparcBook2 particulars?

Thanks

Bob