Xorg has been delivered on SPARC for approx. two years (since snv_58).
Only one SPARC graphics board has a Xorg driver delivered into the WOS
(kfb/XVR-2500), though the SPARC graphics team also has Xorg drivers for
XVR-100 & XVR-300 that they have supposedly made arrangements to deliver
directly into Indiana, bypassing the WOS.
Xsun cannot be delivered in Indiana due to third-party non-redistributable
code included in it.
It was my understanding that the SPARC release would include Xorg & the
appropriate drivers - see for instance, Tim Cramer's thread on which hardware
to support a SPARC desktop on. (Unfortunately, most of the requests in
that thread were for older hardware that the SPARC graphics team isn't
supporting, and while we have community-ported reverse-engineered drivers
from Linux/BSD for those, we haven't figured out how to get those in yet.)
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Matt Keenan wrote:
> I don't know if that would be an accurate assumption, Niall can concur
> as he
> is more in tune with what is installed on livecd as a minumum. Current
> Xserver
> on sparc is XSun, I don't think Xorg is available yet, I could be wrong
> Alan can you clarify ?
>
> Either way as long as there is an Xserver delivered (Xsun or Xorg),
> Gnome should
> pretty much function the same on sparc as X86 as far as installation is
> concerned.
>
> The only real concerns on the X server side of things is whether it
> supports
> Composite/Xrandr extensions for compiz, but that's only a concern post
> install
> and is a user preference, which a user has to attempt to enable.
>
> cheers
>
> Matt
>
> sanjay nadkarni (Laptop) wrote:
>> Karen Tung wrote:
>>> I am working on a quick write up on exactly what type of
>>> image the Distribution Constructor (DC) is expected to deliver for
>>> the sparc prototype.
>>>
>>> Will X/Gnome desktop be supported for sparc prototype? I heard that
>>> it will not be supported.
>>> Please confirm. If it indeed is not supported, DC will only produce
>>> images
>>> that boots to the console, and users will have to login as the user
>>> jack.
>>> Since there will be no desktop, users will not be able to do the GUI
>>> install.
>>> Is this a valid assumption?
>>>
>> That certainly is good assumption for now. Only one Xorg driver
>> exists for sparc.
>> -Sanjay
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> --Karen
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