Thank you. I'll see what's available on eBay.
Thanks, Bryan On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Matthieu Herrb <matth...@herrb.eu> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:41:42AM -0400, Bryan C. Everly wrote: > > Matthieu, > > > > Thanks for your reply. When I go to the FAQ and drill into 1.2 (on what > > systems does openBSD run) then select sparc64, I am taken to: > > > > http://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html > > > > If you scroll down to the supported frame buffers, for the XVR-1200 it > > shows the ifb (with a link to the manpage) and it says it is 24-bit color > > and accelerated. > > > > Unfortunately if I configure my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file with 24 bit > planes, > > X generates an error on startup saying that only 8 bitplanes are > supported. > > > > Any further help you could provide would be massively appreciated. This > is > > a killer system and I'd really like to be able to use it as my daily > driver > > with i3 as my window manager. I just feel like not enough people are > doing > > their daily work on anything but amd64 and I'd genuinely like to change > > that to keep some of these still very viable architectures alive. > > I only have an Expert3D-lite to play with. Ihmo the under X it's not > usable compared to the mach64 card that is present on the motherboard > of my Blade-150 system. > > If you can find an XVR 100 or 300 instead, it will probably give you a > much better performance for a desktop system. > > -- > Matthieu Herrb >
