[SunRescue] For trade/sale: sbus svga card

[Ken Hansen]

Good to hear - I remembered that the acceleration for SPARC framebuffers
was poorly sipported, but now that I think about it, I have not looked into
it for quite a while. I am happy to be corrected,

Ken
n2vip at bellatlantic.net

James Lockwood wrote:

> On Fri, 12 May 2000, Ken Hansen wrote:
>
> >     What OS are you using? Solaris can take advantage of built-in
> >     hardware acceleration, Linux can not - the same may be true
> >     for other *free* OSs.
>
> This is not quite true.  Graphics acceleration is a function of the X
> server, and the OG X11 cg6 drivers perform quite well.
>
> > What would it take to have SPARC Linux use hardware acceleration,
> > like a TurboGX+ card? I would love to see that happen - is it just
> > impossible (i.e. Sun won't release needed info), or not worth it (as in
> > it would be a great effort to code for such a "classic" framebuffer)?
>
> The cg6 had a very open spec and drivers for it have been in the
> mainstream X server for quite a long time.  The extra acceleration
> features provided by the TGX+ are largely transparent and should kick in
> automatically.  Many, many people were using MIT X11 under SunOS 4 with
> cg6 cards.
>
> It's cards with relatively small production runs (cg12, leo, etc) that are
> the real problem driver-wise.