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Hello,

> > XFree does barely work on ffb cards, unaccelerated. This will
> > (hopefully) improve soon though.=20
>=20
> Darn. I had hoped it was accelerated=20

Not yet. It's being worked on though.

> - I seem to remember reading reports of it being accelerated under
> Linux and assumed that applied to other platforms that use XFree.

NetBSD/sparc64 in right in the middle of switching to XFree86 so not
everything works yet.

> I see that Linux and FreeBSD can both use afbinit to load Sun
> microcode into the Elite3D and Creator3D and enable acceleration -
> not sure if that makes any difference?

Hmm, the driver source seems to imply that only afb cards need firmware,
the Creators /should/ be able to do at least basic 2d operations without
firmware upload. ( and the ffb console driver seems to do just that )

have fun
Michael

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