Hi, David Chisnall <[email protected]> wrote: > Did you try the Cairo back end? I vaguely remember reading about Cairo improving support for 8-bit displays a few years ago when people started wanting to use it on things like the OLPC and eInk displays (with 64 and 16 colours, respectively).
The problem is that the cairo port pulls in gobject-introspection that in the end tries to pull in python 2.7. But this python version doesn't build on 32Bit sparc, at least not with gcc4.2.1. IIRC, other *BSD suffer the same problem. Python 3.X is also in the ports, but the gobject-introspection doesn't build with that :( > > David > > P.S. Any chance that I could borrow an account on the SPARCbook for a few hours at some point so I can add SPARC32 support to libobjc2? sure, I can prepare things for you. I could also give you access to a SparcStation 5. Its a little bit faster, 170MHz instead of 110, and 196MB RAM instead of 64. Send me your ssh public key, and I'll prepare it for you. Sebastian > > On 9 Jun 2012, at 11:25, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I got GNUstep up and running on a Tadpole Sparcbook 3GX under OpenBSD ;) > > Riccardo recommended me to use the xlib graphics backend. > > > > Generally it seems to be all fine, besides a little bit slow. Since its only 8 > > Bit display, colors sometimes look a bit weirdo ;) > > > > When applications are starting, I see the following warning on the console: > > > > WARNING - XGServer is unable to use the fast algorithm for writing to an 8-bit > > display on this host - the most likely reason being the StandardColormap > > RGB_BEST_MAP has not been installed. > > > > My hope is when I can get rid of the warning, then colors may look a bit better, > > and maybe if it then uses the "fast algorithm" things may feel faster on that > > box. > > > > Googling for the RGB_BEST_MAP, I found its related to xlib, but what exactly, > > and how to install it, its not clear to me. > > I hope someone has a cluestick and can point me into the right direction. > > > > Sebastian > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep > > > -- Sent from my Difference Engine > > > > _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
