On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Ferris McCormick wrote: > [This will not be any kind of definitive response, but maybe I > can help you guess what's going on. My experience with this list > suggests that for any specific Sun configuration, you will find > relatively few people using something similar, so the sun driver > knowledge base is small. If you have been reading this list, you > know my only qualification is that I have been fighting with sun > drivers. I do not have a cg14 running with XF86, and I can't > conveniently configure such right away. So, that said, here we go--- > FEM] > > On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, dogshu wrote: > > > > > I'm actually very happy with XFree86 on my Solaris 8/Sparcstation > > 20/onboard CG14 w/4MB VSIMM box. I don't know if its my particular > > hardware/drivers, or the X clients that I am running, but the OpenWindows > > Xsun that comes with solaris is a monster!! Sun's Xsun server balloons up > > to 300 megs, and usually forces me to hardware reset my system after > > it crashes it. (even stop-a doesn't work) > > >
Ok, I lied, sort-of, in what I wrote next. As you already knew, it builds Xsun because the loadable driver version is not officially supported with Solaris. To see what it does, I am building such a thing on a Sparc20/cg14 system (running Solaris 2.5.1). If the built-in loader works, it will load the driver suncg14_drv.o, and that driver always runs the card in 24 bit mode. Other than that, what I said next is true; you just can't do it under Solaris without cheating. > I haven't tried XF86 with Solaris 8, so for kernel reasons maybe you > have to do this. I have been told, however, that nobody understands > Xsun24, and that they want to keep it that way. > > Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: (703) 392-0303 Fax: (703) 392-0401 _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
