Gentoo on SPARC: Calling all Gentoo-GURUs!

[Bob Raymond]

Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> For all of you Gentoo guru's:
> 
> The Gentoo-SPARC instructions state that X is not supported on
> Gentoo-SPARC.  But it also talks about using Xsun or somesuch.
> Does X run on Gentoo-SPARC and it's just not supported by the Gentoo
> guys?  Do you have to buy Sun's X server for Linux?  What's the deal
> here.  I'm trying to test out Linux on SPARC and since everyone who
> tries Gentoo raves, I though I'd try that one this time around (since
> Gentoo, Slack, Deb, and Sorceror's are the only major distros to support
> SPARC at this point-per DistroWatch).
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Matt

I don't know how much of an indicator this is, but 
/usr/portage/profiles/default-sparc-1.4/use.defaults lists X, among KDE, 
GNOME, etc.  XFree's driver list also lists a few Sun drivers. 
Unfortunately I can't test it as I don't have a SPARC.  You're welcome 
to send me one if you have a spare ;-)


			Bob Raymond