Am Mo, den 26.09.2005 schrieb Alan Coopersmith um 22:11:
> There is an ffb driver in the X.Org source, but I've never gotten it to
> build on Solaris since it depends on the DRI kernel interfaces used in
> BSD & Linux.
>
> [...]
>
> I don't think there will be usable Solaris SPARC graphics support in the
> X.org open source release any time in the forseeable future unfortunately.
> We may be able to get binary Xorg drivers out for some SPARC graphics cards,
> but not likely source we can contribute to Xorg.   Unfortunately, the cards
> the SPARC graphics group are most likely to be willing to put in effort on
> Xorg drivers for are the recent models which are OEM'ed from other vendors,
> and not the older models Sun made ourselves.
> 
> If you really want to have source to both your X server and graphics card
> modules, x86 is sadly the only real choice, and only if you give up the
> performance boosts of closed source drivers like the ones from nVidia.

Ok, in one sentence: It is currently not possible to build an usable
Xserver for sparc hardware out of the X.org (or any other free
available) sources.
Is this correct?

erisch (waiting patient for suitable X sources ;)) 


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