Source code for X11 Server?

[dhns]

Although 50% off-topic:

I am trying to find my path through the net to the source code of a working X11 server for the Zaurus (i.e. drivers for ARM architecture, some mechanism to access the display, keyboard and touch pad).

I know that there are
* pdaXROM for the C series models using some hardware acceleration
* X/Qt for using Qt libraries
* the old x11zaurus which apparently uses Xfb

What I could not find is the source code for any of them (for X/Qt my understanding of Japanese is not good enough and the sources of x11zaurus have probably been trashed when the company was closed) - and there appears to be no hint within the X.org distribution how to make it run on an ARM processor.

For my project all of them have their drawbacks, so I decided to try my own luck.

Any hints/links are really appreciated.

-- hns

[Mickeyl]

Download OpenEmbedded and fire up 'oemake xserver'. You'll then see how OE fetches the X.org sources to build a nice X server for whatever-machine-is-supported-by-oe.

[dhns]

Download OpenEmbedded and fire up 'oemake xserver'. You'll then see how OE fetches the X.org sources to build a nice X server for whatever-machine-is-supported-by-oe.

Mickey,
many thanks for that hint. Now, I have looked a little into the OE Wiki but this raises questions that I was not able to get answered easily enough:

* Is it required to install a complete build system just to compile an X server?
* Does OE run on Mac OS X for cross-compilation?
* Is it possible to use OE to compile for the Sharp ROM (glibc) or only for OZ? I can't force my users to flash a kernel just to install an X server.

-- hns

[Mickeyl]

* Is it required to install a complete build system just to compile an X server?

Installing OE is enough, since this build system also builds the toolchain and the necessary dependencies for the X server.

* Does OE run on Mac OS X for cross-compilation?

I don't have a Mac, but I've been told that someone got it working. Check out the Wiki.

* Is it possible to use OE to compile for the Sharp ROM (glibc) or only for OZ? I can't force my users to flash a kernel just to install an X server.

That may work. We have glibc-2.2.5 in OE, although you would need to tell OE to use your prebuilt 2.95.3 toolchain. Since no one of the OE core team is interested in the SharpROM, it would be nice to have someone looking if that works (and if not, supply some patches )

[dhns]

If somebody else needs to know what I have found on the original question.

An X server for the Zaurus uses the Framebuffer driver (kdrive) to generate Xfbdev. Here some links:

http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/kdrive.html
http://www.handhelds.org/minihowto/building-x.html
http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/pipermail/li...ber/006587.html
http://www.rule-project.org/en/sw/kdrive.php

-- hns

[Laze]

Later this weekend we expect to upload all the sources for pdaXrom..

[Bebe]

Thanks Laze.  I should have read this post first before replying to the other one about kernel sources. Oh well...

[ScottYelich]

mirrored

http://zaurus.spy.org/feeds/cacko/pdaXrom/1.1.0/src/