Subject: Re: XF86Config for Sparcstation 20?
To: Dmitri Kondratiev <d_kondr@yahoo.com>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/17/2004 23:18:27
> I am trying to run NetBSD on Sparctstation 20.  I have no docs
> describing hardware (monitor, mouse, etc.) so I am looking for
> XF86Config for Sparcstation 20.

Ouch.

The SS20 - like all SBus machines - does not have to contend with the
passel of wildly incompatible video hardware that drove the creation of
XFree86 and necessitates XF86Config.  There are only a handful of video
cards you _can_ have in a 20 - bw2, cg3, cg6, cg14, leo, maybe the
cg8?, that's probably about it, and a cg3 is pretty unlikely.  (And all
of those support plain memory-mapped framebuffer access.)

I'd say you're nuts to try to use XFree86 on a SS20, except that in
your case presumably you just didn't know any better.

/~\ The ASCII				der Mouse
\ / Ribbon Campaign
 X  Against HTML	       mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca
/ \ Email!	     7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39  4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B