While searching through mailing lists, I have found a changelog that says
"sunleo and suncg14 now correctly set bpp."  This was after the 4.1.0
release, which is what I tried.  So, I checked out the latest version of
XFree86 from CVS, and am presently building it on a sparc20/cg14 system
running solaris 8.  We'll see how it goes.

The Xsun* servers are all that built when I tried 4.1.0.  I don't know if
the suncg14 driver is part of Xsun, or if I have to "cheat", as you said,
to get the regular loadable driver X server to build.

Jim Faulkner

> 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
>
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