On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Ferris McCormick wrote: > On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, dogshu wrote: > > > > > It looks like the problem with Xsun24 is still there, even in the CVS > > version. When I run XFree86's "Xsun24 -fbinfo" after having run the Sun > > XServer once, XFree86's XServer tells me its a TCX, and works in 8 bit color. > > When I run "Xsun24 -fbinfo" without having run Sun's XServer since last > > bootup, XFree86's XServer tells me its a cg8, then terminates and spits > > out this error message: "Fatal server error: CG24UpdateColormap: > > FBIOPUTCMAP failed" > > > > If you could give me a hint as to how to build the regular loadable module > > version of the XFree86 XServer, that would be great. Since there's > > actually an official driver for the CG14 that seems to be somewhat > > maintained, I figure I may as well give it a shot. > > Jim, > [everything else omitted]
You have got my interest up now, so I am going to look at a couple things, and it might trigger an approach for you, too. It occured to me that on the Solaris systems (SS20/cg14, SS2/cg3) I am testing on, I don't use Sun's openwin stuff at all. A few years ago I built what was then X11R6 (from MIT), and it all works fine, including its version of Xsun. So whatever that version of X11 is doing to figure out how to talk to the display devices works fine without having to have had anything from Sun run first to set up the devices (unless Sun broke something by the time Solaris 8 came out.) Anyway, it should be possible to figure out what X11R6 was doing right and make some version of XFree86 (Xsun24, or preferably, the Loadable Server) do that, too. After all, at the end of the build, Xfree claims to have built X11R6.5. Do you happen to know where Sun's documentation on interfacing with any of these devices hides out? If it's publicly available, it's well disguised. 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
