[SunRescue] Linux framebuffer support

[Mike Nicewonger]

SPARC Linux has native support for the framebuffer built in to the IPX (GX
framebuffer), the point we were discussing is the special framebuffer added
to the IPX in the form of the portable RDI Britelite IPX.

Mike N

PS, yes Solaris and Gnome are dog slow on that box. tis why I am planning to
run OBSD with something light like FVWM.

----- Original Message -----
From: "scohen - Stephen Cohen" <scohen at acxiom.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 1:00 PM
Subject: RE: [SunRescue] Linux framebuffer support


> Mike,
>
> This might be a much better question than you may realize!  I salvaged an
> IPX.  Solaris 2.5 GUI was dog slow.  A friend, familiar with Intel Linux,
> said Red Hat sold a SPARC version.  I bought it, he loaded it and it
worked,
> but enlightenment/Gnome was dead dog slow.
>
> I am not sufficiently skilled (maybe I am but just don't yet know it) to
> acquire the Linux source and compile it into an operating binary.  Red
Hat's
> RPM is just what I need.
>
> Realizing I might be a Microsoft-like 'lowest common denominator', I still
> like the idea of swapping the GUI with sawmill/Gnome, loading and running
> ethereal, and much, much more, but don't have the specific knowledge
> required to start from source.
>
> I've only 'heard' that BSD is better on the SPARC instruction set - not
seen
> quantifiable numbers, though.  Maybe my IPX (even with the Weitek PowerUp
> upgrade taking it from 40 to 80Mhz) will never be well suited to run with
a
> GUI.  But it does a mighty fine job for other, less demanding, tasks.
>
> I actually appreciate your question and the chance to say that the Linux
> community, albeit Red Hat, has extended the use of an IPX such that I can
> use it while still learning about it.
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Nicewonger [mailto:twmaster at twmaster.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 11:34 AM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Linux framebuffer support
>
>
> Good god, why would anyone want to run dead rat on a Sun. Since I don't
run
> Linux on Sparc's I couldn't say. One could always consult the HCL at dead
> rat's web site.
>
> Mike N
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "scohen - Stephen Cohen" <scohen at acxiom.com>
> To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 10:35 AM
> Subject: [SunRescue] Linux framebuffer support
>
>
> > Mike N recently posted "... I was thinking more like OpenBSD which
> supports
> > the framebuffer."  Does this imply that Red Hat (or any other) Linux on
a
> > SPARC does NOT support it?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Steve
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