Linux (was Re: [SPARCbook] Sparcbook 3 mouse)

Derrick J Brashear shadow at dementia.org
Wed Aug 25 19:56:58 CDT 1999


On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Jaakko Niemi wrote:

> > The documentation was released only a month ago. assembly not important,
> > what needs to be done is:
> > a) a video driver finished (i started work on this a few days ago)
> > b) X server modifications, if necessary, and they may not be 
> 
>  The Xfree86 XSun server uses the framebuffer afaik, so most propably
>  it does not need to be modified much to get it working. 
> 

well, might need to mmap from a different offset, or teach the framebuffer
to pretend to be a cg3 like the netbsd driver does. still working on it

-D








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