syscons by default?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:44:08AM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:02:55AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:58:43PM +0000, Pete Bentley wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:03:52AM -0800, Doug White wrote:
> > > > Which is really pesky since XFree86 will work on the ATI fine, we just
> > > > need a way of having syscons attach the display but not use it so XFree86
> > > > can nab it later.  I see that the creator code handles the case where its
> > > > not the chosen console; I wonder if some shim driver that goes through the
> > > > motions but doesn't implement any of the fb functions might work. 
> > > 
> > > Is it not possible to write shim driver that falls back onto the OBP 
> > > functions for text mode output?  Sure they're slow, but at least
> > > you could potentially get text working under syscons, then XFree86
> > > can grab the device later and do its thing.
> > 
> > I'm sure it's possible - if you could investigate this it would be
> > greatly appreciated by the rest of the users without Creator3D
> > hardware.
> 
> Should I interpret that as "the Creator3D does not have the problem" ?

Creator3D is the supported graphics card.  If you have one, you can run syscons and XFree86.

Kris