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Hello,

> > > I have a 501-4789 "Creator Series 3 (FFB2+)" for my U10. It would
> > > be nice to be able to use it.
> > At least 2D-Support should be there in the not too far future.
> This is really great news. I am desperately looking for a not too
> low, non-PeeCee machine supported by NetBSD that is 24 bit X11
> capable.

You can use your Rage Pro, guess what I'm using to write this message :)

> Will this also work when I run a 32 bit userland on the U5 / U10?

It /should/ but it's never been tested. You'll have to build X from xsrc
anyway for now ( src/x11 will produce flaky binaries ), for a 32bit
userland you'll probably have to hack some config files to build XFree86
instead of Xsun.

> (To work around LP64 related GCC internal bugs in the HP-PA backend I
> need to use a 32 bit machine for building hp700...)

Ouch...=20

> BTW: I am building -current at the moment to test the recent ATI PCI
> VGA support. I have a U10 ("Darwin") with "ATI Technologies 3D Rage
> I/II" and a U5 ("Darwin+") with an ATI Rage Pro. Will this work on
> Darwin and Darwin+ or Darwin+ only?

Both will work as console, but only the Rage Pro will work properly with
XFree. For some reason it doesn't like the Rage II - feel free to poke
around - I have no way to do that myself right now since I don't have
the hardware ( my U10 has a Rage Pro ). Please mail me the dmesg
output of the machine and a PCI device dump ( pcictl pci1 dump -d
2 on my box ) of the Rage II - I'm still looking for answers to the
question why the hell machfb is happily using it and XFree isn't. Maybe
XFree tries to access some IO stuff on the II but not on the Pro, I
don't know.

> Maybe this should be added to the FAQ on the port-sparc64 page at the
> NetBSD web site. ;-)

This stuff is brand new and needs testing :)

> > 3D not any time soon though.
> No problem. I don't need 3D games.

These probably wouldn't work too well on Creator-style hardware anyway.

have fun
Michael

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