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

[BSD Bob]

> > > 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.
> 
> Most of the stock X11 should build on a sparcbook2 running solaris just
> as well and as easily as it would build on any real Sun running the same
> release of solaris (i.e. very easily if you follow the instructions
> since I'm almost certain that most releases of X11 since at least R5
> have been widely built and tested on various versions of solaris).  The
> only question arises as to whether or not the sparcbook2's frame buffer
> presents a different API than those commonly available in Sun machines
> or not.  I would guess that most of the Xserver programs would build,
> but I wouldn't bet on any of them actually working.  :-)

Unfortunately, the SparcBook2 is not Sun, and it is sparc in name only.
It is one wierdo little beast, as I am finding out here and there.
There are a lot of folks playing with the SB3 boxes, but essentially
noone is doing anything with the SB1 and SB2 boxes, that I can find.
Everything about it is ``custom'' and not quite Sun, including the
Solaris 1.1.1-B.11, which is the only known OS that will run on the
silly critter.  And, noone anywhere seems to know anything detailed on
it, at all, anymore.  I downloaded all the X files, and ran off a CD.
Perhaps something will surface out of it that will do some approximation
thereto.  I did get gcc and a webserver up.  Now to get some sort of
browser up, and I will be happy......(he sez, after the umpteenth load
and crash......(:+{{...).  Too bad Net/OpenBSD won't run on the thing.

Bob