porting from SGIs to Linux?

Roland Mainz roland.mainz at nrubsig.org
Tue Jan 11 17:33:57 PST 2005


Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 
> Roland Mainz wrote:
> > Alternatively you may want to look at Solaris/x86 (which ships with the
> > original Motif2 by default and ViewKit is available, too) where the Xsun
> > driver PseudoColor emulation support for various drivers, too (m64
> > (PGX24/PGX64), permedia (Raptor) etc.).
> 
> Those drivers are only available from Sun for SPARC, not x86.   I don't
> know which, if any, x86 boards have simultaneuos 8 + 24 support, though
> I suspect it's the same set as Xorg/XFree86, especially when using the
> Xorg server (new in Solaris 10) or the Xsun server with XFree86 Porting
> Kit drivers (included in recent Solaris 9 releases, available as download
> for older releases).

Uhm... what happened to the native m64 driver in Solaris/x86 ? AFAIK
that one wasn't going through the Xfree86 porting kit...

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Bye,
Roland

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