On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 03:19:59PM -0600, Emre Yildirim wrote:

> Yeah, I understand...I was just giving out a little serial console FAQ :)
> Anyway, I thought X on sparc64 was broken?  Although, the 1.6 release came
> with x*.tgz files in the install, so I'm a little confused.  Maybe someone
> can shed a light into this.  Does X work on sparc64?

Yes, but only the cgsix frame buffer on sbus based systems is
supported.

> Since the Sun Blade is basically a trashy PCI computer (try to open up the
> case and you'll be very disappointed), I figured I could plug in a
> supported PCI video card and make use of it.  But I'm not sure how well
> that works.

sparc64 does not yet have wscons, so making use of the any video is
not really possible except as a text console.

g.