Are there any plans for xfree86 to support the raptor graphics cards for
solaris or sparc linux?

- Josh -

----- Original Message -----
From: Marc Aurele La France <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 12:36 pm
Subject: Re: [Xpert]sunffb on Solaris

> On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Matt Behrens wrote:
> 
> > Anyone know how to get the sunffb driver working on Solaris (9 in my
> > case)?  My card is UPA, in an Ultra 10.  On 4.2.99.1, XFree86 -
> configure> finds all my PCI cards (I have two PGX32 cards and the 
> onboard video)
> > but never finds sunffb.  Adding a device section for sunffb 
> results in
> > nothing.  I installed the aperture driver; that was needed for 
> PCI to
> > work anyway.
> 
> You might want to try the fbdev driver.  Keep the following in mind
> though, as quoted from Domain.note:
> 
> "- The SBUS drivers (sunbw2, suncg14, suncg3, suncg6, sunffb, 
> sunleo and
>   suntcx), the common layer's SBUS code and the fbdev driver have all
>   only been compile tested.  There are likely to be Linux'isms within
>   them that remain to be dealt with."
> 
> It would be great if you could help make some of all of this code 
> portableto Solaris SPARC.
> 
> Marc.
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