On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:26:37 -0600 (MDT) Marc Aurele La France <tsi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm pretty sure you don't really know that. Your log says (in part) ... > > (II) Loading /opt/pkg/xfree86/lib/modules/drivers/sunffb_drv.o > > ... which should instead read ... > > (II) Loading /opt/pkg/xfree86/lib/modules/drivers/sunos/sunffb_drv.o > > ... because the sunffb driver must necessarily be OS-specific, as not all > OS'es agree where to mmap(2) the Creator's various hardware areas. > > Verify that the second exists, remove the first, restart the server, and you > should be in business (even with a hardware cursor). > > If I may ask, what caused you to use NetBSD's modified driver? > > Marc. Yeah I noticed the official binary XFree86-4.6.0 distribution had sunffb driver under 'drivers/sunos', when I copied NetBSD's sunffb source files + Imake file, I ended up with 'drivers/sunffb_drv.o' file. In any case, even when running the original XFree86 with 'drivers/sunos/sunffb_drv.o' there was no mouse cursor. I'll try your suggestion and move 'drivers/sunffb_drv.o' to 'drivers/sunos/sunffb_drv.o', but I have a feeling this will not do anything. The reason why I copied NetBSD's sunffb driver is because it has better acceleration, the whole reason why I'm running XFree86 on Sparc Solaris is because GTK2 uses libcairo for rendering, which needs Xrender extension for fast rendering. Sun Xservers don't have this extension, so most GTK2 applications are painfully slow. NetBSD's sunffb driver renders antialiased text pretty quickly. As you can see I'm not an expert on these things, this is what I've been told by the Sun and NetBSD developers. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
