Subject: Re: NetBSD Questions
To: NetBSD Help mailing list <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Chris Wareham <chris.wareham@iosystems.co.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/11/2002 10:57:37
David Brownlee wrote:
> 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.
>
Well in that case it's time I got another disk for my SparcStation and
installed Net onto it! I've been running RedHat Linux on it up until
now, but I've wanted to switch to Net for ages.
Chris
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