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frankOnPPC
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 10:08 am    Post subject: Xfree / X on ultra 5 Reply with quote

Hi,

as I'm a newbie to utlra5, and after searching (also with google) a little bit, I just have some questions left open.
But at first, I like to use that ultra 5 as a surf, development (Java, C/C++,LAMP) station and prefer to use KDE (3.2.3) as GUI environment.
Thats what I like to achieve, and I guess the ultra 5 should be allright for that.
The Box has 512M Mem and a 9G SCSI Disk. Should be enaugh.

What I like to know, where can I find informations about the onboard Graphicscard (I read elsewhere its ATI-Mach, right ?)

How can I set up a functioning xfree-config ? Are there some hints to find ?

That the next Point, use xfree or x.org ?

I guess, the "rest" is the same as on Gentoo PPC, or on other Sun Boxes (which I never used with xfree when using linux, shame on me, but I just used them as little servers).

Thanks in advance,
Cheers Frank
Yes, I'm the guy that don't like that silo 1.4.4 thing anyway....
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 12:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Comments on a couple of your questions:


  • xorg-x11 v. xfree xorg-x11. xfree is deprecated on sparc.
  • mach-64 xorg (or xfree) does support it, and there are contributers to this forum who do use it.
    Either search the forum, or keep asking. (I do not use mach64, so I don't have better information
    than to tell you that it is used on sparc with xorg. I have used sparc+linux+X11 with a mach64, but I
    currently do not do so.)



Hope this helps,
Ferris
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 2:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh, thanks,
I never got the Idea to search for mach-64,
that was a very helpfull hint, thanks !
(If I know where to search, then I have a chance to find something....)
Cheers
Frank
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