Subject: Re: Installing -current
To: None <port-sparc64@netbsd.org, yojack@jcom.home.ne.jp>
From: None <eeh@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 04/20/2002 00:55:27
| On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:28:22PM -0000, eeh@netbsd.org wrote:
| > | Also, the creater "ffb" device doesn't seem to be supported in 1.5.2
| > | but how about -current? 
| > 
| > FFB is not supported on -current either.
|
| Sorry for the silly question but...
|
| Does this mean that I'll need to use another framebuffer? or that the FFB
| will be somewhat usable (eg ouput something to my monitor) 

The firmware is used as the output device on machines with unsupported
framebuffers.  You will get text but you won't be able to run X.

Eduardo