Subject: Re: SPARCbook and wscons - testers wanted
To: Sean Davis <erplefoo@gmail.com>
From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/08/2005 17:42:24
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Hello,

> > The cgsix driver supports acceleration and wscons but no virtual consoles (yet).
> > So, please test these kernels and tell me about...
> > - how it works at all
> 
> Works great here, I've got 8 virtual consoles at 100x37 - finally, a
> full screen text console on this thing :-)
Cool :-)

> Only thing it's missing is ANSI color... I just get shades of grey.
That's the sun terminal emulation, a kernel with vt100 support should do colour as well. The driver loads the ANSI colour map from rasops anyway.

> But I can live with that, it's still a huge improvement over what I
> had to deal with on the sparcbook before.
I'll compile a kernel with vt100 support later - I'm fiddling with the DBRI part right now, it took me all day to figure out how to power it up :/
Maybe we'll have some basic audio in the not too far future :)

have fun
Michael

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