4.1. Supported, Required, and Recommended Hardware
At least a 486DX33 with 16MB RAM is required. A Pentium or Pentium Pro
and more main memory is recommended. A 386 or a system with 8MB or less
memory is an insufficient configuration.
There are no specific requirements concerning network cards, disk types,
or CD ROM equipment; of course the more powerful, the better.
Depending on the packages installed, a disk space of 20-55MB on a
HPFS formatted partition (or a JFS, NFS or ext2fs partition natively
allowing long filenames) is required. XFree86/OS2 will not run on FAT partitions.
You need a video card that is supported by XFree86. Refer to the general
README document for a list of supported cards. Note that the sets
of video cards supported by XFree86 on one hand and OS/2 on the other
hand overlap, but do not match exactly, i.e. the fact that your card
is supported by OS/2 does not mean it works with XFree86 as well, and
vice versa. XFree86 does not use the video services of the OS/2
operating system.
4.2. Required Software
Any version of Warp 3 with at least fixpack 17, or Warp 4 is required
XFree86/OS2-3.3.6 may use a local named-pipe connection or a TCP/IP
based network connection.
Warp comes with the Internet Access Kit (IAK), which is
sufficient. Warp Connect and Warp Server come with a full
version of TCP/IP (3.0). Use of this software is preferred over
IAK then.
Warp 4 comes with TCP/IP 4.0 which should also work.
There are reports that with EMX 0.9 fix 4, you can also use
the new 32 bit IBM TCP/IP 4.1 product.
The old IBM TCP/IP 2.0, that comes with the IBM PMX product
may be used with Warp as well, although it is no longer supported
by IBM. Please ensure that you have the latest CSDs installed.
Other versions of TCP/IP, such as FTP's, DEC's, or Hummingbird's
TCP/IP versions, as well as IBM TCP/IP 1.X are not supported. Nor does
any networking support from DOS (packet drivers, winsock), Netware,
or NetBIOS work, and I won't to provide support for that in the future.
If you want to write or port applications for XFree86, you are
encouraged to do so. You will need a complete installation of
EMX/gcc 0.9C fix4 or later for doing so. Neither the second (obsolete)
implementation of gcc, nor any commercial package, including
Cset/2, VAC++, Borland C++/OS2, Watcom C++, Metaware C, and others,
is suitable for porting, because various parts of the X DLLs rely
on certain features only present with EMX.