Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 07:33:51 -0800 (PST) From: Scott A Micciche <scottmicciche@sbcglobal.net> Message-id: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0202060732510.15757-100000@phobos.highlands.net> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] X problem under Sun Enterprise
The xfree86 site must be wrong or outdated then. There is no mention of
support for Sun's pci based framebuffers, only sbus and upa. I had no
luck using a Raptor card in an U10 either with 7.3 and I used 3.3.6
without a hitch. Good luck then.
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 16:24:17 +0100
> From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
> To: suse-sparc@suse.com
> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] X problem under Sun Enterprise
>
> On Wed, Feb 06, Scott A Micciche wrote:
>
> > I believe you have to use XFree86 3.3.6 for the PCI-based framebuffers
> > as I haven't seen much support for the PCI Sun framebuffers in the
> > XFree86 4.x series.
> >
> > You may have to choose the 3.3.6 package explicitly at install time to
> > acquire the package for configuration post install. Hope this helps.
>
> This is wrong, XFree86 4.1.x as shipped with SuSE Linux 7.3/SPARC
> works fine for PCI-based framebuffers.
>
> Thorsten
>
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