P9000 on Solaris 2.4 x86 needs better support

P9000 on Solaris 2.4 x86 needs better support

Post by Stephen Hi » Mon, 14 Nov 1994 06:11:18



   Why didn't Sun support more P9000 based cards in the latest edition
of Solaris 2.4 x86?  Even OS/2 Warp supports a generic P9000 card out
of the box.  I know the Viper is popular, but it's not that much trouble
for Sun to get a standard P9000 support up.  By "standard" I mean a P9000
card that doesn't have proprietary dot clock programming that's been
very much criticized (and rightfully so) in the XFree86 group discussions.

   Note to Sun: just take the code from XFree86 3.1 for your generic P9000
                support in openwin...it's free you know ;-)

Steve Hite