On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:54:06PM -0700, Peter Sprague wrote: > Everything works fine and within the stated capabilities of the > wildcatfb driver. I understand that the wildcatfb driver is only > unaccelerated 8 bits, but I thought the wsfb driver was supposed to > be able to provide accelerated 24 bit depth. That is what I > attempting to get operating.
wsfb has no acceleration either. > > The wsfb driver seems to fail when I force its use with 8 bit - 24 > bit. Yes the reason for which wildcatfb exists is that the frame buffer layout of ifb(4) is weird and difficult to support in wsfb. > > Is there a recommended video card for the Blade 1000 that will give > me the operational performance I need? > > Seems like my Blade will become a brick unless I go back to Solaris. I think there may be some ATI based framebuffers (PGX24, XVR-100, XVR-300) that are supported in a Blade 1000 and can use the xf86-video-mach64 or xf86-video-radeon drivers with 24bpp and 2D acceleration. but I'm not sure, since I don't have access to any of those framebuffers. Other OpenBSD developpers probably know better. Honestly if you need graphics performance, give up on sparc64 and get a cheap x86 based machine (even a 7-8 years old one with a supported card will outperform any other architecture under X on OpenBSD, and not only because it's the only architecture that gets attention from X.Org developpers). -- Matthieu Herrb
