At 10:47 AM 8/2/99 , James Garnett wrote:

>...and meanwhile back in Gotham City, Matt Thomas (matt) wrote:
> > As of this afternoon, the standard Xsun server works (albeit with
> > no colormap support) on the Tadpole 3GX.  So you have run with the
> > defaults colormap the prom set up.  But it's enough to have twm
> > and xterms running (although with just blue & white).
>
>I've compiled a -current kernel with your p9100.c driver from
>
>  /*      $NetBSD: p9100.c,v 1.2 1999/08/01 06:27:00 matt Exp $ */
>
>and it seems to work pretty groovy, with the exception the colormap (which
>you mentioned) and the mouse (which doesn't work).  The mouse is stuck
>in the center of the screen, which indicates that it just isn't being
>found by the stock NetBSD Xsun.  

The mouse on the tadpole uses a slightly different protocol that
the sun mouse driver didn't understand.  I fixed that yesterday.
Today, I fixed the colormap problem (the tadpole tech ref man was
incorrect).

So there now exists a fully functional console with Xsun support.

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