> Unless the specs are eventually released for the XVR-1000, I'm thinking > the Creator3D > will be about the best I can do when the day comes that Xsun is gone. > (Sun Blade 2000) > I'm quite glad that will be possible, have definitely gotten spoiled with > high res + 3D. > (not like the old sucky GX days at all :-)
Hey, I'm happy you SPARC users show up now. #0) The Elite3D (FFB2+) is better than the Creator3D. It is supported. That's what I'm currently using here while typing, on JDS and Xorg, with openwin pointing to X11 (possible thanks to the good fox-work of Moinak, Alan and the X11-group) on a Blade 2000 Dual 1056MHz 6GB SunPCi3, running snv_95 with zfs-root (note: when you upgrade your os use the text-installer, which gives you an option to use zfs for /). x86-only users: SPARC isn't slow. #1) The XVR-1000 aka FFB3: I got Xorg to recognise this card already (with different src). Xorg started, but didn't create a root-window, it stayed in text mode (while the console stdout indicated that it even registered mouse events). Many components on the XVR-1000 seem to be identical with those on earlier FFB boards. Except the core chipset (google for it, one of its the-engineers has posted some info about it, but no specs). I don't know what might be necessary to get the XVR-1000 fully operating. #2) If you want to use something reallly modern and fast (in the Blade 2000) then try to find a card from the x86 world which is still being delivered for PCI 2.2 . Then compile the driver for SPARC SunOS5.x target and then take mdb or dbx to debug it. This should work in most scenarios. But it would only give you an additional Xorg head, not a boot-console. But you could use serial, or a slow OF supported card for the boot, and the modern card for your Desktop work. If you are interested in this send me a card and I will look if I can make it work for you. If the driver doesn't conatin SPARC or ppc -#ifdefs already, then we will add them. It's mainly about endianness fixes. %m
