XFree86 on Ultra 5?

[Daniel Bye]

On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 11:23:54AM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does XFree86 run with FreeBSD on an Ultra 5?

No - see this page:

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/DP2/hardware-sparc64.html#AEN29

Particularly section 3.5, unsupported hardware.  So far, only a serial
console will work, so it's not yet ready to act as a workstation.  You *may*
be able to get it running as an X server, but you will need to run the
display on another machine.  A friend of mine tried this a couple of months
ago with -CURRENT, but never got it working properly - whether because it
can't be done, or because he didn't try hard enough, I couldn't say. ;-)

Dan

> 
> I have this Ultra 5 on my desktop and need to decide whether
> to install Solaris 9 or FreeBSD.  I'd rather prefer FreeBSD,
> because (a) the box has only 128 Mbyte of RAM, and (b) I prefer
> FreeBSD anyway.  :-)
> 
> However, X11 is a must, because it will be primarily used as
> an X terminal (only few local programs will be run).
> 
> I've searched the archive, but haven't found any information
> whether XFree86 runs with FreeBSD/sparc64 on an Ultra 5 ...
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Regards
>    Oliver
> 
> PS:  No need to Cc me.  I read the list.
> 
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