Re: A few Decstation questions.
Len Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 01:24:27AM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > I have the ACCESS.bus LK501 keybord working on my r4k maxine, still
> > without hotplug capability. The LK201/LK401 support is nearly complete
> > for console mode, it just needs a bit of bit shuffling. I intend to do
> > this the next days. There are still two X problems: LK201/LK401 won't
> > report key-up events (can be solved easily) and the XFree86 server in
> > woody does by default not accept the lk keymap, it falls back to some
> > linux legacy defaults. This is probably only a installation/xkbcomp
> > problem, I haven't looked into it further yet.
> >
> > About the various framebuffer drivers:
> > I've worked further on the PMAG-AA support, console basically works,
> > X is yet untested and likely needs some tweaking. I haven't found out
> > yet how the cursor generator works.
>
> The NetBSD kernel code for this looks pretty reasonable, at least coming
> from not having a clue what it was before. They certainly have a cursor
> on, cursor off and cursor setup function in the kernel. Might be worth
> looking at.
I tried, as well as the mach sources, with little success. Either I
missed some important bit or this code did never really work. I
suspect the latter (for now :-).
> > I've added colormap handling to the PMAGB-BA driver, this works fine
> > now, and I use it regularily. I changed the PMAG-B and maxinefb
> > drivers accordingly, so the code look similiar now, and is probably
> > more robust. The PMAG-B part is untested, as I have no such hardware.
>
> If only I had a monitor for the PMAGB-B. :)
Any decent Multisync with BNC should work, if you have the cable.
Thiemo
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