On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Matt Thomas wrote:

> At 08:45 AM 8/20/2000 -0700, Tim Rightnour wrote:
> 
> >On 18-Aug-00 matthew green wrote:
> > > that might be so, but we gotta do it sometime ... it doesn't matter,
> > > the alpha port has been needing it for N years, and only now is it
> > > finally starting to be possible :)
> >
> >Note also that having xfree86 on sparc might put us closer to having the
> >xfree86 p9100 driver available for the tadpoles..
> 
> Not susbstanially.  The reason is that XF86 really wants VGA and the p9100
> in the sparcbook is *never* in VGA mode.  It would be better to write a
> local p9100 driver in the new wscons stuff that Roland is working.

How does the switch to wscons solve the need for an X server that talks to
the p9100 chipset?  Or is there an X server that does that that's not part
of XFre86?


Eduardo Horvath