Matthieu, Thanks for your reply. When I go to the FAQ and drill into 1.2 (on what systems does openBSD run) then select sparc64, I am taken to:
http://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html If you scroll down to the supported frame buffers, for the XVR-1200 it shows the ifb (with a link to the manpage) and it says it is 24-bit color and accelerated. Unfortunately if I configure my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file with 24 bit planes, X generates an error on startup saying that only 8 bitplanes are supported. Any further help you could provide would be massively appreciated. This is a killer system and I'd really like to be able to use it as my daily driver with i3 as my window manager. I just feel like not enough people are doing their daily work on anything but amd64 and I'd genuinely like to change that to keep some of these still very viable architectures alive. Thanks, Bryan On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Matthieu Herrb <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 09:12:33AM -0400, Bryan C. Everly wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to get X running successfully on my Sparc64 Sun Blade 2500 > with > > the XR-1200 video card and I'm struggling. > > > > I can get something displaying with the wildcatfb driver set up in my > > xorg.conf file but the FAQ states I should be using the ifb driver (for > > which a man page exists) and yet when I try to configure it, I get > "Failed > > to load module ifb module does not exist". > > Which FAQ (URL ?) > > The kernel driver for those is 'ifb(4)' but the X driver is indeed > xf86-video-wildcatfb. So the FAQ entry you're reading should be fixed or > clarified. > > -- > Matthieu Herrb >
