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  <H2><A NAME="5"></A>5. Notes for running XFree86 on Solaris x86</H2>

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<li>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 <code>xinit</code> command would look like so:<p>
<blockquote><code>
<pre>
		xinit -- vt00
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</code></blockquote>

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

<p>To be able to run XF86Setup, you must at least create
/dev/vt01. Otherwise XF86Setup won't start.</p>

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<li>For Solaris you will probably want to set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to 
<code>/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/openwin/lib:/usr/dt/lib</code>.  
Including <code>/usr/X11R6/lib</code> in your 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH is probably not necessary, however it doesn't hurt. :)
<p>Including <code>/usr/openwin/lib</code> in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH is 
recommended 
because some Sun supplied binaries were not compiled with LD_RUN_PATH 
set properly at compile time.</p>

<p>Motif and CDE applications may require <code>/usr/dt/lib</code> in your
LD_LIBRARY_PATH too.</p>

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


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<li>If you want to use xdm with Solaris, extract the files from the shar 
file in <code>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/XdmConf.svr4</code> into a temporary 
directory. The <code>README</code> 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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