Jim,
Thanks for your response (below); here are a couple preliminary
observations.
The suncg14 driver and the sunleo drivers are drivers with those names
under the Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers tree. They themselves are not built
when you build the monolithic Xsun server: I know because I tried that
first. Whether or not their equivalents are built into Xsun I do not
know. Sunleo is, I believe, but I have not yet convinced myself that
Xfree86/Xsun24 even supports the cg14 directly. If it does, the code for
it is well disguised. I'll be interested in what you learn.
As I mentioned, I have a build using the cheating approach on a
sparc20/cg14. Unfortunately, this system is running Solaris 2.5.1,
and I can't take it out of service to try Solaris 8. I can force
the build to go to completion; I'll let you know if it actually runs.
Regards,
Ferris
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On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, dogshu wrote:
>
> 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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