Am Mo, den 26.09.2005 schrieb Alan Coopersmith um 21:42: > Erik Trauschke wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have some trouble to compile the Xorg distribution for the > > sparc-platform. But first I have some general questions about X and sparc: > > > > Is there a Xserver other than Xsun available for sparc? > > Not really. > > > In the build notes I found this: " Also on SPARCs, you may be able to > > build the old deprecated Xsun* servers ..." > > This sounds to me that you CAN build the Xsun server, but you don't need to. > > The older Xsun* servers only support really old hardware not generally in use > any more - if you read the hardware list in the README.Solaris you'll see > Xsun* > only supports: > Sun/2 bw2 cg2/3/5 > Sun/3 bw2 cg2/3/4/5 > Sun/4 bw2 cg2/4 > SPARCstation cg3/6 > Sun/386i mono color > > Only the cg6 will work in a machine that can run Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris, > and > that driver is also available in the Xorg tree. You might be able to get > Xorg > working on a cg6 with that, but I've never tried. > Ahh, I understand. They mean there is an old and a new Xsun server. And no, I don't try to use X with a cg6, I wouldt be happy if I can use my Elite3D or my Creator Card. But this means that I don't have to include the Xsun rule in my host.def, does it?
> > That sounds to me that there isn't a usable Xserver other than Xsun > > available and will not be in the next release. > > Now what is the case??? > > As far as I'm aware that is true for now. If "in the next release" you mean > the next full release of Solaris (i.e. when Nevada is finished), then it may > not be true as we are working with the sparc graphics team to have them port > their drivers from Xsun to Xorg. With next realease I mean the first release candidates of the upcoming 6.9/7.0 release. I never doubted that there will be sparc support in the final release and I'm really looking forward to this day. erisch
