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 18:32:55
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Hello,

> > > 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. 
> 
> Hmm... I was able to do color with just plain rasterconsole, but the
> ligher colors were invisible on the white background. this was with a
> sun termtype on console... but I imagine there is more to it than
> that, I haven't really looked.
Hmm, maybe I didn't feed rasops all the flags it wants. I'll have a look at that :)

> > 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 :/
> 
> jmcneill was working on DBRI - he wanted me to give him my sparcbook
> so he could hack at it - perhaps he could help you avoid reinventing
> too much of the wheel? :)
I hope so. The last messages on port-sparc I could find which dealt with DBRI are from 200 or 2001 though.
 
> > Maybe we'll have some basic audio in the not too far future :)
> 
> That'd be nice, although I hate to think what playing mp3s would do to
> the already unpleasant heat situation on the 3GX's... ;-)
Hmm, it wasn't too bad under Solaris 2.6 - mpg123 ate about 30% CPU and I'm not sure I set all the right compiler switches.

have fun
Michael

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