Re: Was the ifb X driver deprecated?

Matthieu Herrb <[email protected]> Mon, 21 Mar 2016 16:04:29 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.os.openbsd.sparc
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:41:42AM -0400, Bryan C. Everly wrote:
> Matthieu,
> 
> Thanks for your reply.  When I go to the FAQ and drill into 1.2 (on what
> systems does openBSD run) then select sparc64, I am taken to:
> 
> http://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html
> 
> If you scroll down to the supported frame buffers, for the XVR-1200 it
> shows the ifb (with a link to the manpage) and it says it is 24-bit color
> and accelerated.
> 
> Unfortunately if I configure my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file with 24 bit planes,
> X generates an error on startup saying that only 8 bitplanes are supported.
> 
> Any further help you could provide would be massively appreciated.  This is
> a killer system and I'd really like to be able to use it as my daily driver
> with i3 as my window manager.  I just feel like not enough people are doing
> their daily work on anything but amd64 and I'd genuinely like to change
> that to keep some of these still very viable architectures alive.

I only have an Expert3D-lite to play with. Ihmo the under X it's not
usable compared to the mach64 card that is present on the motherboard
of my Blade-150 system.

If you can find an XVR 100 or 300 instead, it will probably give you a
much better performance for a desktop system.

-- 
Matthieu Herrb

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