Subject: RE: TCX FB Support in NetBSD 2.0
To: Robert Mohr <robmohr@charter.net>
From: R. Tyler Ballance <tyler@tamu.edu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/18/2004 21:01:49
I really don't know, there's always xf86cfg (slightly GUI) and
xf86config (Text based)
Guess and check is my favorite method of doing things ;)
-Tyler
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 20:17, Robert Mohr wrote:
> That is really my question... how do I try it out? Other than running
> Xsun24 to launch X, is there other configuration that needs to be done?
> Under i386 there is a nifty graphical configuration utility (my experience
> on i386 is with Fedora core, but I believe the same utility is available for
> NetBSD i386 in pkgsrc), that does the dirty work and just "makes it work".
>
> Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R. Tyler Ballance [mailto:tyler@tamu.edu]
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 9:18 PM
> To: Robert Mohr
> Subject: Re: TCX FB Support in NetBSD 2.0
>
> My best advice is to give it a try, I don't run X on my SparcStation
> with the TCX framebuffer, but just test some stuff out, X will let you
> know if something won't work ;)
>
> -Tyler
>
> On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 19:45, Robert Mohr wrote:
> > I've been looking through mailing list archives, and the NetBSD SPARC port
> > web pages; however I have not been able to determine what level of support
> > for the TCX framebuffer now exists in NetBSD 2.0.
> >
> > The only reference I found on the web site
> > (http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sparc/hardware.html) indicated "kernel
> support
> > limited to cgthree emulation". Is this still the case in 2.0? I've found
> > several posts archived that indicated that some work was being done to
> > extend the support for the TCX card in the 2.0 release. Did this not get
> > incorporated?
> >
> > I am currently running RC3, and am using Xsun24 to launch X. Running
> > xwininfo and clicking on the root window yields the following information:
> >
> > 1152 x 900
> > 8 bit
> >
> > Please let me know how to enable higher color depth support in X if it is
> in
> > fact supported in the driver now.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated,
> >
> > Rob Mohr
> >
>