Re: Notes for Shark disk install

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hello,

On Sep 27, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Chris Wareham wrote:

> Chris Gilbert said on 27/09/08 13:33:
> >> Just in case it's of use to anyone, my install notes can be found  
> here:
> >>
> >> http://www.chriswareham.demon.co.uk/shark.html
> >>
> >> Now to try and get X up and running ...
> >
> > People have managed it :)
> >
>
> It's hard to judge from messages on the list whether Xfree86 or Xorg
> from pkgsrc work, and if so whether it's on 4.0 or a recent -current.
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

All right, I'm the one responsible ;)
Xorg from pkgsrc won't even build but I made NetBSD's own XFree86 work.

If you have Revision 4 hardware you can just X -configure and that's  
it. The chips driver is built on shark and should come with the  
xserver package. All you need to do is pick a video mode and colour  
depth ( but don't expect too much, the ct65550 has severe memory  
bandwidth limits, it doesn't really support more than 16bit with hw  
acceleration so you can choose between 800x600 in 16bit and 1024x768  
in 8 bit )
If you have Revision 5 hardware ( much more likely ) you can use  
XFree86 with the wsfb driver. It's unaccelerated and it will use  
whatever video mode the console runs in ( currently 1024x768 in 8  
bit ). I have code in my source tree to allow 16bit colour and more or  
less arbitrary resolutions and at some point I'll hopefully get around  
to write a basic IGS2010 driver for X. The code isn't committed yet  
because it needs testing on the JavaStation Krups which uses an older  
version of this graphics controller. I probably broke the krups  
support in several horrible ways.
X with wsfb depends on a graphical console ( using igsfb on rev. 5, I  
didn't port chipsfb for the r4 yet but XFree86's chips driver knows  
how to switch video modes ) - the generic kernel should come with  
igsfb IIRC so you should have everything you need to get basic X  
support going.

There should be an example XF86Config for wsfb in ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/macallan/shark/