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Hello,

On Feb 28, 2007, at 16:17, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> At Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:02:37 -0500,
> Michael Lorenz wrote:
>>
>> You can do that with XFree86 as well, they have a cg14 driver but for
>> lack of hardware I never tried it. It does support 24bit IIRC. My U1
>> runs dual head XFree86 with two cgsix.
>
> I REALLY dislike XFree86's philosophy of dealing with hardware.
>
> I really want a proper kernel based framebuffer driver under X.
>
> _Especially_ on sparc!  :-)

You know that xfree86 uses /dev/fb* to talk to sbus and upa devices, do 
you?

> An ideal situation would be a sufficiently compatible framebuffer 
> driver
> to be able use a SunOS Xserver program directly, though of course
> ultimately I just want to run the latest Xserver I can build from 
> source.

Which would be terribly slow with anything remotely modern for lack of 
xrender and friends.

> I sure as heck don't want to have to use "options INSECURE" in my 
> kernel!

And what exactly makes you think that you have to?

have fun
Michael
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