Subject: Re: virtual terminals on ultra 5
To: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 05/01/2005 17:31:39
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Hello,

> > You can't. NetBSD 2.0 on sparc64 doesn't use wscons and therefore
> > you don't have virtual consoles. The code to support them on a few
> > graphics chipsets ( namely Sun cg6 and ATi Mach64 ) is in -current
> > and will probably end up in NetBSD 3.0.=20
>=20
> What's the state of SunFFB (Creator3D) and wscons?

Should work, but probably unaccelerated and without virtual consoles.
I don't have any ffb graphics board so I can't do anything about that.

> I have it working currently (U10, Creator3D, XFree86) with a
> somewhat-older -current kernel, and patches from John Heasley, and
> would love to see all the necessary bits in the now-current -current
> tree.

Everything you need /should/ be in -current now.

> SunFFB and March64 dual-head would be even nicer :-)

XFree's sunffb doesn't work yet, but when it does some day your
dual-head setup should just work ( provided both ffb and machfb attach )

have fun
Michael

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