Subject: Re: cgtwelve ?
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Per Andersson <ppan@celsiustech.se>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/26/1995 02:22:31
>> Is the card really a cg12 or is that an emulation until you get
>> the thing goin with their own drivers ?
>
>I can't say if it was a CG12 or not (the Sun CG12's were triple-width, goodbye
>available SBus slots), but I can say that as a former regular user of an SS2
>with a CG12, it was so painfully slow as a framebuffer that I don't know if
>you even want to bother ...

That's what I felt too, until I happened to put it in a machine running Sol2.
It was much faster there, but I was told it might have something to do with
my applications using Direct Xlib automatically instead of real X.
Please share your experiences everybody !

/Per