Subject: RE: TCX FB Support in NetBSD 2.0
To: 'der Mouse' <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Robert Mohr <robmohr@charter.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/26/2004 00:03:56
Yes, this is the TCX(S24) AFX for SPARCstation 5

I found some information here:

http://www.x.org/contrib/servers/sun/

Which claims to be a patch to enable 24-bit accelerated framebuffer support
on the TCX under X11R6.4.  The patch and a readme are in the same directory.

Rob

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From: port-sparc-owner@NetBSD.org [mailto:port-sparc-owner@NetBSD.org] On
Behalf Of der Mouse
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 11:22 PM
To: port-sparc@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: TCX FB Support in NetBSD 2.0

> I am currtenly using a TCX with 24-bit color under 1.6.1.  [...]

> The only problem I've had with the CG8 emulation is that console
> messages that pop up after the server is started will corrupt the
> display backplane,

This is fixable.  You just need to use rasterconsole, and point it at
the appropriate view of the framebuffer.

> Oh, and again, it's slow.  Hopefully someone will find TCX docs and
> add acceleration in the future.

This is the S24?  (That's the only 24bpp tcx I know of.)  If so, a
little birdie gave me doc on it, which I believe is complete, and it
doesn't have a whole lot of acceleration.  I can cleanroom the doc I
have into a description of the interface if anyone is likely to do
anything useful with the result.

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