1 X Window System on Solaris™
15 X Version 11, Release 7.7
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21 The VT-switching sub-system in Solaris
22 Notes for building X11R7.7 on Solaris
23 Notes for running Xorg on Solaris
26 The VT-switching sub-system in Solaris
28 The original virtual terminal sub-system is a undocumented, and unsupported
29 feature of Solaris x86 releases 2.1 through 7. It was removed in Solaris 8 and
30 later releases, and was never present on Solaris SPARC. Support for this
31 version of virtual terminals is only present in Xorg 1.6.x and earlier releases
32 of Xorg, and has been removed in Xorg 1.7 and later. If you use this form of
33 virtual terminals, you do so at YOUR OWN RISK.
35 A new virtual terminal sub-system has been introduced in Solaris 11, and is
36 also available in systems based on the OpenSolaris or illumos sources. This
37 version is supported on both SPARC and x86 platforms, though SPARC support is
38 limited to devices with "Coherent Console" support in the kernel frame buffer
39 driver. Support for it is found only in Xorg 1.7 and later server releases.
41 When available, the virtual terminals of Solaris work basically the same way as
42 most other VT sub-systems.
44 Notes for building X11R7.7 on Solaris
46 1. Both GCC, and the Sun Studio compilers are supported by X11R7.7. The
47 minimum recommended GCC release is 3.4. Some earlier GCC's are known to not
48 work and should be avoided.
50 You should also make certain your version of GCC predefines `sun'. If
51 needed edit /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/*/*/specs, and modify the *predefines:
54 2. To build X11R7.7 with GCC you need gcc and (optionally) c++filt from GNU
55 binutils. Don't install gas or ld from GNU binutils, use the one provided
58 3. If you are using Sun compilers to compile the X11R7.7 distribution, you
59 need to modify your PATH appropriately so the Sun compiler tools are
60 available. Normally, they should be in /opt/SUNWspro/bin
62 4. You MUST put /usr/ccs/bin at the front of your PATH. There are known
63 problems with some GNU replacements for the utilities found there, so the /
64 usr/ccs/bin versions of these programs must be found before any possible
65 GNU versions. (Most notably GNU 'ar' does not work during the build).
67 Notes for running Xorg on Solaris
69 1. Depending on the release or architecture of Solaris you are running, you
70 might need to install an OS driver for an aperture device.
72 Under Solaris x86 2.5 and later, there's a system driver (/dev/xsvc) that
73 provides this functionality. It will be detected automatically by the
74 server, so you don't need to install the aperture driver.
76 For older Solaris x86 and for Solaris SPARC releases, the source for this
77 driver is included in hw/xfree86/os-support/solaris/apSolaris.shar in the
78 xserver source distribution. Building, and installing the driver is
79 relatively straight forward. Please read its accompanying README file.
81 2. Xqueue is NOT supported under Solaris.
85 Bug reports should be reported at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/ using the xorg
86 product or sent to <xorg@lists.freedesktop.org>.