Subject: Re: Shark and XFree86
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: port-arm
Date: 01/06/2007 15:40:31
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Hello,

On Jan 6, 2007, at 06:08, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 01:29:54AM -0500, Michael Lorenz wrote:
>
>> support for XFree86 on NetBSD/shark has been committed, please test an
>> tell me if I forgot something.
>> What's known to work ( at least for me ) is XFree86 with wsfb on a
>> kernel with igsfb. wsfb will NOT work with vga - it requires a
>> graphical console. I included the chips driver for XFree since older
>> sharks have a C&T 65550 graphics controller - this may or may not 
>> work,
>> I have no way to test it.
>> A config filefor X with wsfb is here:
>> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/macallan/shark/XF86Config
>
> You're (probably) my hero - the old X server driver on a 3.1ish kernel
> crashes when I display odd bitmaps, like starting viewfax - but I 
> didn't
> manage yet to test it on my other Shark or at work...

Sets and kernel are here:
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/macallan/shark/current-20061220/
and an XF86Config is here:
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/macallan/shark/XF86Config

have fun
Michael
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