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Re: xorg status on sparc



On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 10:07:17PM -0700, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> * It looks like driver autodetection is not doing a very good job. I've 
> seen the driver "fbdev" being chosen on a couple of occasions, which is 
> most probably wrong. The framebuffer driver on sparc is sunffb. I plan to 
> look at it (as I understand the part which generates the config file on
> fresh install is the config script of xserver-xorg).

Driver autodetection is discover1, via xresprobe.

> * Bug 368214: wrong keyboard layout is chosen for on sparc with 2.6 
> kernels.

We should probably just do this by default (pick 'base' everywhere).

> * Bug 352869: sunffb driver depends on symbols from cfb and cfb32 modules,
> which are not included in the default configuration file.

AIUI, this is solved in the new sources, which don't use cfb at all.  So
try updating to the newer sources.

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