Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > A "strings" on the Xorg binary (as of snv_90) suggests that it may know about > ffb2+ > (Creator 3D series 3).
All Xorg knows about any SPARC hardware is how to load a driver module for it. Without a driver module, it can't do anything on it's own. The strings you're seeing have always been in Xorg on SPARC, and are just part of its mapping of Sbus/UPA device ids to names, much as the Xorg scanpci module has a table of all known PCI device id names, whether Xorg supports them or not. You can see the Sbus/UPA code in question at: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/hw/xfree86/common/xf86sbusBus.c The only driver modules provided for SPARC as of snv_90 are kfb_drv.so for the XVR-2500, wsfb_drv.so for cards that support dumb frame buffer access via the fb/visualio ioctls/mmaps, and dummy_drv.so for Xvfb-like unseen operation. You can verify this with a simple "ls /usr/X11/lib/modules/drivers/" yourself. I don't remember if ffb was one of the open source modules Martin Bochnig had gotten working with Xorg or not - you'd have to check the archives. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
