Re: Was the ifb X driver deprecated?

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

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