On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 2:13 PM Gregor Riepl <onit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > > Given the state of the old video drivers missing or non-functioning > > in modern Xorg does anyone have any recommendations for PCI Card that > > should work well enough on the old hardware. In my case that’s an > > Ultra 5, Openboot support is not a requirement. > > > > Currently I have PGX32 but the glint driver is gone, as is the > > mach64, I might have XVR-100 in storages but I hear the radeonfb is > > iffy also. > > https://salsa.debian.org/xorg-team/driver/xserver-xorg-video-mach64 and > https://salsa.debian.org/xorg-team/driver/xserver-xorg-video-sunffb are > still there. > > Even though the packages are gone, the drivers may still work. > > sunffb needs some changes, which are available in my fork: > https://salsa.debian.org/onitake-guest/xserver-xorg-video-sunffb > > Adrian: Do you know if these packages can introduced back into > debian-ports in some way? I think we discussed this before, but I don't > remember what came out of it... > > Regards, > Greg >
I would also need those drivers for my Ultra 10 and Blade 100. @Mike: for now you can use the fbdev driver. You need to manually set up your Xorg configuration with modelines and stuff. It will not be fast, but usable for a basic desktop, if you use lxde or mate with openbox. Regards, Connor