Subject: Re: ultra5 & Xwindows
To: Amadeus Stevenson <amadeus.stevenson@gmail.com>
From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 04/30/2005 18:50:04
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Hello,

> I booted your kernel and it works great. Hardware is configured, and I
> must confess it's the first time since the 5 or 6 years I've been
> using netbsd that I've had a full screen, colour console! And at
> 1280x1024 that was a real suprise. I found a whole new edge to all
> those console apps I'd been using in monochrome!

Good :)

> Only thing is that now the ultra5 won't boot to monitor if I don't
> connect a keyboard to it; but that's no biggie.

That's exactly what it's supposed to do. The firmware will redirect the con=
sole to a serial port if it finds no keyboard.

> I'll try your XFree86, and if/when it works I'll compile -current
> userland as well with USB support and let the list know how it works.
> Will I have to recompile X as well?

No, just use the binaries you found on my site.=20
You don't need to compile your own userland to run X and get USB support ( =
it takes about 7h on my U10, that's a 333MHz US IIi with 2MB cache ) - I co=
mpiled one a few days ago, if you want I'll make them available for downloa=
d - certainly beats waiting for the compiler I guess :)

> I'll definitely put all the ultra5 info onto http sometime.

Do that, a good beginner's guide is obviously missing.

have fun
Michael


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