Xsun.TCX24.README
April 19, 1999
Alec A. Kosky
alec@dakotacom.net


   Here is a patch to X11R6.4 that will allow the Xserver (XSun24 and
perhaps XFree86, but I don't have SparcLinux running to test) to use
Sun Microsystems' TCX (aka SS24) framebuffer as an accelerated
24-bit framebuffer instead of a dumb 8-bit framebuffer. I cannot
say that I wrote much of it - most of it came from some patch that
the SparcLinux group had written for X11R6.1 (but I cannot find
any documentation on who wrote that patch, please forgive me for
not giving credit). I merely updated the patch for X11R6.4 and made
a few minor tweaks to get it working nicely. I have been running
the patched server on a Sparc 5 (Solaris 7) with the TCX framebuffer
for about 2 weeks now with no problems.

To apply this patch:

   cd <top of X source, i.e. directory containing `xc' directory>
   patch -p0 < Xsun.TCX24.patch
   Follow directions in INSTALL.{TXT|PS}

This patch was made against the stock R6.4 sources (i.e. R6.4pl0). I 
have not tried to apply it to any other sources.

If this patch works for you (and if it doesn't!), please let me know.
I would like to continue to work on this patch and improve it. If you
have improvements or bugfixes, send them to me at the address above.