Re: hp 712 (X11)

Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Brian A. Seklecki:
> On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 17:49, Miod Vallat wrote:
> > > I've instaled successfully OpenBSD 3.4 on a hp 712/60.
> > > 
> > > But, am'i right if i say that X11 is not supported ? If so can i help 
> > > in some ways ?
> > 
> 
> I don't think the on-board video cards have drivers in XFree86; I think
> Linux uses the framebuffer device. 16bpp max iirc.

all 712 models have 8bpp obviously.
there is no free (or any other in source code for that matter)
driver for any of the hp video cards (the sti ones) so
in the best case we can use it w/ minimal accelleration
(i think cursor works and some other tiny stuff) as a dumb
frambuffer kinda thing though they all can do much more...

cu

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