--- On Fri, 11/13/09, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> What older PCI-E boards would it replace? The only PCI-E graphics
> cards Sun ever sold for SPARC workstations were the XVR-300
> for 2D users and the XVR-2500 for 3D users.
>
Odd, the XVR-200 was the PCI-E (x1) 32 VRAM graphics card used for
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Alan Coopersmith
wrote:
> Martin Bochnig wrote:
>> If Alan tells me what he can open src (in his spare time, as soon as
>> he might have some),
>
> I released the source to Xsun's /usr/openwin/server/lib/libserverdga.so.1
> this week, it's just well hidden and not
Martin,
Well, ok. Things are starting to unfold now with
more code and posts being made by Sun.
I'll just wait till OSOL 2010.02 is released. (grin)
~ Ken Mays
--- On Fri, 11/13/09, Martin Bochnig wrote:
> From: Martin Bochnig
> Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] [xwin-discuss] Sun
Martin Bochnig wrote:
> If Alan tells me what he can open src (in his spare time, as soon as
> he might have some),
I released the source to Xsun's /usr/openwin/server/lib/libserverdga.so.1
this week, it's just well hidden and not yet buildable 8-).
I've not checked, so can't promise, but believ
Ok, the last update, sorry for writing a 3rd message:
Even *if* somebody would ever be going to write such a wrapper (i
don't see the ROI), then it would be completely impossible to do so,
without first having Xsun available in src, plus putting lots of
entire src files (the resulting object file
Err, for the record:
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Martin Bochnig wrote:
> Our old dream of a Xsun vs. Xorg ddx module bridge died the moment,
> when Alan once shared some information with us, back in fall 2007.
> Plus when he gave us sunInit.c (or how the file was called).
And of cours
Hello Ken,
I do not know what you are talking about.
Opensrc ifb??
Then you name all available (/dev/fb!!! and Xsun-ddx!!!) drivers from
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/downloads/sparc_graphics up and
down, but a few things are not correct at all (Ati vs. not Ati), and
the rest simply has not
ken mays wrote:
> We can easily use the newer XVR boards like the XVR-300 to replace many older
> PCI-E boards and the XVR-2500 board for others. The PCI boards can be
> replaced as well.
What older PCI-E boards would it replace? The only PCI-E graphics
cards Sun ever sold for SPARC workstati
r those interested in helping out. Hope this was just enough for
a bit of 'alien mindbending' by interested parties.
Ken Mays
Blastwave.org
Atlanta, GA
- >11/12/09, Martin Bochnig wrote:
> From: Martin Bochnig
> Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:34 AM, ken mays wrote:
>
> As for the future, we have already spoke of running XSun legacy drivers in
> Xorg space. Also, porting working accelerated drivers to OpenSolaris.
>
> So, we don't need the full XSun, CDE, OpenWin consolidations on SPARC for
> the future redist
--- On Thu, 11/12/09, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
> From: Richard L. Hamilton
> Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert
> 3D, leg
> To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
> Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009, 3:29 PM
> > Actually I thin
> Actually I think there are quite a few of us sparc
> users who would rather not give up performance and
> reliability for the really lackluster performance and
> problems associated with Solaris-X86 and intel in
> general
I'd certainly like to continue using my Sun Blade 2000 (with dual 1.015MHz
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