On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:09:49 -0800
Blaz Antonic <blaz.antonic@siol.net> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> > Is SPX the monochrome framebuffer found in the VaxStation 3100? 
> 
> Nope; that's the onboard dumb framebuffer which is present in any VS
> 3100; SPX is optional 8 plane framebuffer that supports acceleration.
> Mono framebuffer driver is included in the main kernel since (at
> least) 1.6. It's called "smg"; if you have VS 3100 you can enable it
> in your kernel config file (smg0). It is extremely primitive (it only
> supports one gawd-ugly hard-coded font and contains some odd
> programming) but by the looks of it it should work. 

On the subject of 3100s, mine has an 8-bit colour card which I think is
a VS40X. Is that any relation of the SPX or something completely
different? Test 50 (config display) shows it as:

  8PLN     0000.0001  V1.3

Regards,
George