[SPARCbook] Sparcbook 3 - Nomadic Computing Environment for Solaris 2.6?

[Michael]

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Hello,

On Nov 28, 2010, at 5:51 PM, chase rayfield wrote:

> Well I don't have the NCE but you might want to try NetBSD oh and if
> you get
> tired of it email me I'll pay
>
> the shipping the same goes to anyone else that has a Sparcbook 3GX
> as well :-) .
>
>
>
> There some info on sparcbook 3gx support here I believe he has added
> support for
> 2D acceleration and most of the power saving stuff. Just add FVWM
> etc.. and
> you're set. Also NetBSD supports PCMCIA better than solaris so you
> could install
> a 16bit wifi b card in there and go wireless :-) in theory at least.

I wrote most of that code - we have acceleration for both the console
and X, you can run X in 24 bit and all 16bit PCMCIA cards that NetBSD
supports otherwise should Just Work ( I used a Lucent 11b card for a
long time ), very basic power saving and so on.
There's one problem though - the SPARCbook 3 has a slightly different
graphics chip than the 3GX ( Weitek P9000 vs. P9100 ) and since all I
have is a 3GX I couldn't really add support for the P9000. I don't
know if there are more differences in the hardware, probably not a lot
though.

> You can apparently run opera from solaris with compatibility libs
> installed as
> well.
>
> http://my.opera.com/Macallan/blog/

That was Opera 7, years ago, on a 3GX with 64MB RAM. Don't even try
with any less than that and more recent versions of Opera don't
support Solaris/SPARC anymore either.

have fun
Michael

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