Roman wrote:
> Hi, there are issues with Sun Xserver on Sparc hardware, i.e. it doesn't
> support Xrender extension properly, so GTK2 applications render slowly, since
> GTK2 now uses Cairo library for rendering, and I think it heavily relies on
> things like Xrender extension.
>
> Does anyone know if there are efforts to port XFree86 or Xorg to run on Sparc
> Solaris. Things like sunffb driver in XFree86 need some work to get decent
> acceleration with Creator UPA cards. Is there anyone working on this, or did
> everyone simply switch their desktops to x86 architecture?
The XFree86 Project has done some work on it, and Martin Bochnig has
been working on it as well lately (see his MarTuX announcements in
xwin-discuss and opensol-announce).
No one at Sun is going to be working on porting support for those older
cards though unfortunately - we've only been able to get the SPARC
graphics group to agree to port drivers to Xorg for cards still being
sold today - which due to the European RoHS restrictions, is now pretty
much down to the XVR-100 & XVR-2500. We're also working with the Sun
Ray team to port their drivers to Xorg.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
