Subject: Re: Help?
To: None <port-sparc64@netbsd.org>
From: Matthew Kolb <muk@msu.edu>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 07/19/2004 17:35:54
On Jul 19, 2004, at 5:09 PM, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:

> Isn't this more of an XFree86 problem than a port-sparc64 problem? I 
> mean,
> given that it does relate very,very much, wouldn't it take someone who 
> can
> hack Xfree86 drivers, and sparc64 hardware?
>
> Of course, if you could get me a hold of a similar Ultra5, with the 
> specified
> graphics card.....I'd be willing to give it a go :-P


As an aside, it is probably worth noting that OpenBSD has a working X 
server for this hardware.  I have been running it for a while now (I 
have several Ultra 5s).

If someone wanted to get going on it, the OpenBSD stuff might be a 
place to start.

./muk

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m. kolb  <muk@msu.edu>