[Sunhelp] Xconsole help

[Bill Bradford]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 10:44:40AM -0700, Chuck Bernard wrote:
> I've been using the 2.6 drivers under 2.7 and it seems to be working fine.
> At least, I haven't found any problems, yet...

Except you lose any/all acceleration.  I did the same thing for a while.

> I was hoping that newer drivers would be available but haven't been
> able to find any :-(   These cards aren't "that" old.  I wonder why they
> aren't directly supported under 2.7?

I guess Sun figured out that by the time 2.7 came out, anybody doing serious
CAD/design who needed 24-bit color was using an Ultra / Creator.  You've
got to EOL hardware *sometime*....

Bill

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