Subject: Re: SPARCbook and XFree86
To: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
From: Christer O. Andersson <christer@a-son.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/28/2006 07:40:40
Hello,

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 07:28:54PM -0500, Michael wrote:
> > 
> > My old kernel was built on sources from Feb 6. The old kernel works
> > just fine with the pnozz driver of date Feb 6.
> 
> That's new enough, all you need is the new XFree driver:
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/macallan/sparc/X11/pnozz_drv.o
> SHA1 (pnozz_drv.o) = d6bcb3e912754e9e8307858c2f7ef7772fecd83f
> drop it in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ - just backup the old
> pnozz_drv.o in case something goes wrong.

Yep, works just fine, 8, 16 and 24 bits. This is _sooo_ nice! It's
fast and looks real good! Haven't done much testing yet, but I
tried surfing to a newspaper in 24 bits, what a joy!


> No useful stack trace?

Don't know what debug options I've got. Some kind of trace appears,
but it reboots too fast to read it. Some of it is left on the
display after reboot, but a bit scrambled.


-- 
Christer O. Andersson
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