XFree86 support on Ultra 10 with framebuffer card

[Ken Smith]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 12:13:09PM +0100, Jason Mann wrote:

> I understand that XFree86 is not currently supported by 5.2.1-RELEASE, due
> to a lack of some kind of console support.
> 
> Is this also the case if you have a UPA framebuffer card fitted, such as the
> Creator3D?

Yes, I'm afraid so.  We have Creator3D working on Ultra-30/Ultra-60
but my Ultra-10 test machine locks up solid after blanking the screen
if the Creator3D support is enabled in the kernel.

It's something I'll look into at some point if nobody else gets a chance
to look into it, though it will take me a while.  I've been working on
fixing a regression that happened with syscons, which I might have a
patch for (initial version has been sent to someone for comment :-).
Once that's done there is a lot of pressure for getting KSE to work,
if it doesn't sparc64 will probably slip out of Tier-1 status.

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