Subject: Re: Wscons in NetBSD 3
To: victor <plumsaren@gmail.com>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/30/2006 14:48:16
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Hello,

> > mpg123 works, although it will probably eat all CPU time ;)
> > Make sure you pass -mcpu=3Dv8 -mtune=3Dv8 to the compiler or it will
> > generate SPARC v7 code which is considerably slower on a MicroSPARC
> > for most things.

> The audio worked fine, I was actually surprised over how clear it
> sounded.

Well, 16bit/44.1kHz ;)

Now that you have a working wscons system you can - if you feel like it
- run XFree86 with acceleration. Binaries can be found in any recent
-current snapshot on releng.netbsd.org. I know it works on sparc64 but
none of my 32bit SPARCs has a cg6 or even an SBus slot.

All you'd need to do to get it to work is (hopefully):
- have /usr/X11R6/bin/X point to XFree86
- run X -configure to get a config file
- add 'DefaultDepth 8' to the 'Screen' section ( X defaults to 16 bit
  which the cg6 doesn't support, didn't find out how to get around that
  yet )
- save the config file as /etc/X11/XF86Config
- startx

have fun
Michael

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