From owner-freebsd-platforms Wed Dec 3 15:16:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA21854 for platforms-outgoing; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 15:16:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-platforms) Received: from bubba.NMSU.Edu (bubba.NMSU.Edu [128.123.3.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA21831 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 15:16:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ian@nmsu.edu) Received: from NMSU.Edu by bubba.NMSU.Edu (8.8.7/NMSU) id QAA21632; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 16:14:32 -0700 (MST) Received: from wilma by NMSU.Edu (8.8.4/NMSU-1.18) id QAA11174; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 16:11:20 -0700 (MST) Received: from nmsu.edu by wilma (SMI-8.6/NMSU) id QAA20553; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 16:14:02 -0700 Message-ID: <3485E86D.8A3E127D@nmsu.edu> Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 16:17:01 -0700 From: Ian Logan Organization: Computing and Networking X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.6 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org Subject: Sparc Port anyone? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi everyone, For a long time now I've been wanting to work on a port of FreeBSD to Sparc. I'm sending this email out to see if there is anyone else interested in working on this?? I'd also really like to hear from some of the alpha people, I'm sure there is all kinds of stuff that we can work together on. :) Happy Hacking, Ian -- Ian Logan Computing & Networking New Mexico State University Email: ian@nmsu.edu Phone: 505-646-6034 Fax: 505-646-5278 From owner-freebsd-platforms Thu Dec 4 19:23:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA04914 for platforms-outgoing; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 19:23:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-platforms) Received: from barrichello.ucr.edu (root@mail.cs.ucr.edu [138.23.169.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA04836; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 19:23:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from korpe@cs.ucr.edu) Received: from hill.ucr.edu (root@hill.ucr.edu [138.23.169.109]) by barrichello.ucr.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA28363; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 19:23:23 -0800 From: Ibrahim Korpeoglu Received: (from korpe@localhost) by hill.ucr.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA04141; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 19:13:28 -0800 Message-Id: <199712050313.TAA04141@hill.ucr.edu> Subject: svga on dell latitude laptop To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (frebsd-questions), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (freebsd-hack), freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org (freebsd-multimedia), freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org (freebsd-platform) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 19:13:26 -0800 (PST) Cc: korpe@cs.ucr.edu (Ibrahim Korpeoglu) Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I have a Dell Latitude XpiCD Laptop, running FreeBSD 2.2.2, having neomagic video card. I am running XFree86, in VGA mode, with 16 colors. Did anybody have success to run XFree86 in SVGA mode on such a machine with 256 or more colors? Thanks a lot. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Ibrahim Korpeoglu. korpe@cs.ucr.edu From owner-freebsd-platforms Thu Dec 4 23:49:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA28427 for platforms-outgoing; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 23:49:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-platforms) Received: from paladio.canonware.com (canonware.com [206.184.206.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA28412 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 23:48:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jasone@canonware.com) Received: from localhost (jasone@localhost) by paladio.canonware.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA17155; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 23:48:07 -0800 Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 23:48:06 -0800 (PST) From: Jason Evans X-Sender: jasone@paladio Reply-To: Jason Evans To: Ian Logan cc: freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sparc Port anyone? In-Reply-To: <3485E86D.8A3E127D@nmsu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Ian Logan wrote: > For a long time now I've been wanting to work on a port of FreeBSD to > Sparc. I'm sending this email out to see if there is anyone else > interested in working on this?? > I'd also really like to hear from some of the alpha people, I'm sure > there is all kinds of stuff that we can work together on. :) I've just barely begun working on a port to UltraSPARC. Being that I'm a bit of a hardware neophyte, progress is rather slow, but I've got lots of time to devote to the project. Jason Jason Evans Email: [jasone@canonware.com] Home phone: [(650) 856-8204] Quote: ["Invention is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration" - Thomas Edison]