Gentoo on SPARC: Calling all Gentoo-GURUs!

[Matthew Carpenter]

Sorry, my Sparc5 isn't hardly worth the shipping it would take :)



On Tue, 29 Oct 2002
14:10:48+0000 Bob Raymond <guarneri at mindspring.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
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