Subject: Re: SPARCbook and XFree86
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Bernd Sieker <bsieker@rvs.uni-bielefeld.de>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/27/2006 20:59:08
On 27.02.06, 13:31:53, Michael Lorenz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Committed. Our pnozz driver now supports 8, 16 and 24bit colour with
> full acceleration ( 'full' as in 'same as in 8 bit' as in
> screen-to-screen blits, solid fills, colour expansion, line drawing,
> hardware cursor and off-screen buffers )
> I could only test it on my 3GX, it /should/ work on other machines with
> P9100 graphics controllers as well. Caveats:
> - video RAM size is still hardcoded to 2MB - should be fine for the vast
>   majority, I don't know of any SPARCbook with a P9100 and different
>   VRAM size but that doesn't mean that there aren't any.
> - it's untested on screens with other resolutions than 800x600. 

Wow! Thanks a lot! I will cvs update and build a new snapshot and
test it.  This will make my 3TX even more useful :)

Anything of note in the XF86Config that needs to be changed (besides
probably the "DefaultDepth" option)?

> 
> have fun
> Michael

I think I will!

Cheers,
Bernd

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Bernd Sieker

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