Subject: Re: NetBSD Questions
To: Chris Wareham <chris.wareham@iosystems.co.uk>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/11/2002 09:45:07
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Chris Wareham wrote:
> I saw that thread recently on the Sparc list, and as I recall it Charles
> Carvalho has the CG14 framebuffer up and running. One thing I'm a little
> unclear on is how framebuffer support relates to console use. As I said
> above, I have had OpenBSD working on a Leo framebuffer without X despite
> the OpenBSD site saying that the Leo is unsupported. Does that simply
> mean the Open and Net don't support X on the Leo, but that the console
> should work by emulating a supported card?
NetBSD (and Open) will default to using the PROM routines for
output, which should work on any framebuffer.
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