Mark Phalan wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 09:21 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> Mark Phalan wrote:
>>> I believe that on Linux X isn't used at all, they directly use the
>>> framebuffer device (/dev/fb). Is this possible in OpenSolaris?
>> If someone wrote framebuffer devices for all the video cards - we also need
>> them for suspend and resume to work, but so far, only have ATI Rage XL &
>> Nvidia's done.
>
> Does this mean that the other cards will probably get support over time
> (as they are updated for suspend/resume)?
We hope so, but there's no one working on most of them at the moment.
> Is the CoolStart project still being worked on? It would be nice to have
> higher resolution/better aspect ratio pics.
It's been in hibernation for the last year and a half or so. The big problem
to be solved for enabling graphical boot is what to do when something goes
wrong and you need to go back to a text console to fsck your UFS filesystem or
otherwise fix a failure. Resolution is of course limited by the VGA/VESA
standard modes.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
