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From: abrown@eecs.harvard.edu (Aaron Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: SX graphic card on sun-NetBSD
Date: 19 Apr 1996 13:04:20 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Laurent Genier (laurent@epita.epita.fr) wrote:
: Does anyone know if the SX graphic card is supported on NetBSD
: for sun-sparc ?
: I just know that it is supported by solaris, and not by sunos.

Nope, not yet. We haven't been able to get docs from Sun to write a full 
24-bit driver; in the meantime there are people working on getting the cg3 
emulation mode working.

--Aaron

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Aaron B. Brown
Harvard University
abrown@eecs.harvard.edu