On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 22:40:21 -0500, Sean Davis <erplefoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 19:51:38 -0500, Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > two questions:
> > 1. Does anyone else here use NetBSD 2.x on a SPARCbook 3GX? I just resurrected mine and dug up some hardware info.
> 
> Yes, I've got NetBSD 2.0.1 (kernel) with a 2.0_BETA userland on my
> SPARCbook 3GX. It will soon have netbsd-2-0 userland, once it's done
> building :-)
> 
> > 2. What about wscons? I recently added wscons support to the cgsix driver on sparc64, it should work on sparc32 too but I can't really test it because the only box with SBus slots I have is an Ultra1. Volunteers?
> 
> Sure, I'll give it a shot. Catch me at dive at endersgame dot net with
> sparcbook in the subject, since I use this address mainly for
> listmail.
> 
> > The reason for question 2 is - I'm playing with the SPARCbook's graphics controller, the documentation from Tadpole is quite sketchy but the holes are filled by XFree86 3.3 so I guess it wouldn't be hard to add acceleration to pnozz*. The obvious way to go would be rasops and wsdisplay but I don't see any wscons support in sparc32 ( well, wscons attachments for keyboard and mouse work on sparc64, more or less, so all that's missing is framebuffer support )
> 
> Question of my own: has your SB3GX ever overheated in X? I used to
> have two SB3GX's - one with 128MB ram and one with 32MB - I gave the
> 128MB one to a friend, and kept the one with 32MB. It hasn't
> overheated yet, but I don't use X on it. I use it mainly as an IRC
> terminal, and a general-purpose sparc32 box to futz with. On the
> 128MB-ram one, X running for maybe 10 minutes with blackbox &
> applications forwarded from another machine caused the box to
> overheat, beep very persistently at me, shut itself off, and refuse to
> let me turn it back on for about an hour.
> 
> --
> Sean
> 

While we're on the subject of SPARCbooks... Has anybody played with
the help processor board (ie, where the lil LCD is) in NetBSD? It'd be
pretty nice to be able to change what's displayed there, like solaris
does, with a spinning / at boot.

-- 
Sean