Re: General beginners questions for debian sparc64

2020-06-15 Thread Gregor Riepl
> At an X.org conference in Montreal last year I chatted with someone who > was fixing these sorts of problems for IBM. We might get better progress > by looking at the recent fixes in the PPC and ZOS trees (sorry, I have > that name incorrect). These architectures are big endian so the fixes >

Re: General beginners questions for debian sparc64

2020-06-15 Thread Rick Leir
Hi all, All this breakage seems to be due to many programmers ignoring the simple rules for endian compatibility. At an X.org conference in Montreal last year I chatted with someone who was fixing these sorts of problems for IBM. We might get better progress by looking at the recent fixes in

Re: General beginners questions for debian sparc64

2020-06-15 Thread Gregor Riepl
> I think i should have the PGX64 chipset in this machine, but i am not > sure if it uses the correct driver. glxinfo tells me everything is > fine with direct rendering using llvm. The Rage XL[1] is a fairly dated and limited GPU, but it has very good 2D driver support on Linux. I think it can