Well it seems to me that if there is an OpenBSD driver to make these cards work on the console and X11, they should be ported to OpenSolaris. I'm actually in the process of selling my SB2000 with and Expert3D card that I could only use SXCE on and not 2009.x due to the lack of driver support. While I'm very happy with my Ultra20 now, I still think it's a shame that a solution for the 3D framebuffers on SPARC has not been introduced.
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com E-Mail: unixconsole at yahoo.com *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ----- Original Message ---- From: Ariel <[email protected]> To: desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2009 7:47:17 AM Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] (Open)Sol 10/nv106 on SB2000 w XVR-1200 Well, after see lot of people like me trying to put your XVR-600 /XVR-1200 on SPARC64 platform with an open-source OS, I would like to share my experience and a light of hope. I have a Sun Blade 100 2Gb and XVR-600 working on Sol10 (yes! in a Blade-100 XVR-600 work nice, not a Blade-150 as minimum on Sun docs). After that I decide upgrade this machine to Open-source world... First with opensolaris but currently the installation mode for SPARC not allow a LiveCD, only Jumpstart like. Ok... but stop! XVR-600 unsupported ... console-mode only today is some sad. Ok, try other flavor: Debian for SPARC. Better, sunxvr500 console driver recognize as framebuffer graphic card XVR-500 (because card ID are equal) and start in this mode showing Linux logo at color, 1280x1024 console... fine!. But.. Xorg can't run because no driver available to use... :( Ok... last chance OpenBSD 4.5 for SPARC64 (release date 1May 2009), on release notes say: [i] # ifb(4), a driver for Sun Expert3D, Expert3D-Lite, XVR-500, XVR-600 and XVR-1200 framebuffers (accelerated). # wildcatfb(4), an X driver for Sun Expert3D, Expert3D-Lite, XVR-500, XVR-600 and XVR-1200 framebuffers (unaccelerated). [/i] Wow, unbelievable! I need install to see this! But release is not available (today April,7 2009). Don't worry...install OpenBSD 4.4 for Sparc, then checkout OpenBSD Kernel 4.5 to build, and finally checkout X driver for wildcat (http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/xenocara/driver/xf86-video-wildcatfb/). Conclusion: OpenBSD 4.5 and XVR-600 work nice!! Finally I have a Xorg running on my Sun Blade 100 and XVR-600... and this isn't Sun/3Dlabs proprietary :) Today the OpenBSD community has a new collaborator and fan that will buy the OpenBSD 4.5 CD: me. I think that the community of developers for OpenSolaris, and Linux can see this OpenBSD code as example to support this hardware. Regards, MrSparc. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ desktop-discuss mailing list desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
