hi,

> Hi,
>
> I did compile a kernel with RASTERCONSOLE (and ffb) support yesterday 
> on a Ultra5 running NetBSD-2.0-BETA and it compiled and rebooted OK. 
> The only things are :

mine on ultra 1 and ultra 2, both 1.6.2 -- did not reboot yet (they're 
kind of 'production systems' ;)

>
> -> I don't see any differences (still a beautiful 80x25 black on white 
> console on my 21" :)

what about the output speed? that *is* for me the main reason to try 
RASTERCONSOLE, as it claims to speed up this very lame thing (as statet 
in the kernel config file)...

> -> "ATI rage pro" is still "unconfigured".
>    I don't know if it's off-topic, but shouldn't it be recognised ?
>    I saw you're (andrey) FTP session with U2 and U30 config file 
> supporting the ffb so I thought my U5 would work :'(
>    On OpenBSD 3.5, the video card work and is known as vgafb0...
>    What is the state of the ffb ? still unsupported (as stated in 
> sparc64 FAQ) ?

tried it on an ultra 10 months ago, but i did not have that much time 
to play with it.

>
> 	Jo (who wishes he could turn he's U5 into a divx box ;)

rgds,

timo

>
> On Mer, jui 02 2004 - 12:09, Andrey Petrov wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 05:30:21PM +0200, Timo Sch?ler wrote:
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>>> hi list,
>>>
>>> is RASTERCONSOLE still broken as GENERIC32 kernel config says? what
>>> about this option in -current (though it's one of my production
>>> systems... ;)
>>>
>>
>> Seems all right, I can't say I heavily use it, but don't see problems
>> with it.
>>
>> 	Andrey
>>