Subject: Re: wscons support for various framebuffers (questions from NetBSD sparc newbie)
To: NetBSD/sparc Discussion List <port-sparc@NetBSD.org>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/28/2007 16:02:37
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Hello,
On Feb 28, 2007, at 15:45, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> At Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:33:09 -0500,
> Michael Lorenz wrote:
>>
>> The SS20's onboard framebuffer has no wscons driver yet so you're
>> stuck
>> with the traditional console or you can use a cg6.
>
> That's another one I could probably help to fix, or at least test. My
> new-to-me multi-sync monitor (normally used on my NCD HMXpro) has dual
> inputs so I'm considering stuffing an 8MB VSIMM I have into the SS20 I
> currently use just with the bwtwo.
>
> This would be especially nice if I could run it dual-headed with X too,
> but I guess I'd need some additional patches from der Mouse to get a
> kernel and an Xserver from xsrc-current to work with both framebuffers,
> with the cg14 in full 24-bit mode.
You can do that with XFree86 as well, they have a cg14 driver but for
lack of hardware I never tried it. It does support 24bit IIRC. My U1
runs dual head XFree86 with two cgsix.
> How does the SS20 firmware tell which frame buffer to use for the
> console again?
output-device
> The eeprom output just shows the following, but I must
> have done something to get it to work by with the bwtwo, I just can't
> remember what.
>
> output-device=screen
'screen' is a devalias pointing at the actual device node. Either add
your own devalias or use the actual device path.
have fun
Michael
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