One necessary correction:
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Martin Bochnig <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Martin Bochnig <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Alan Coopersmith >> But Suns management has had no interest in my alternatives. > > > To avoid ambiguity: For the 3Dlabs cards and also for the XVR-1000 I > could not offer a working alternative, too. > As I had always written, back then. And I always stated, that no(!) > 3Dlabs card ever worked. But no != some. I forgot in a hurry, that Permedia and Permedia2 aka PGX32 (misleading Sun brand, because they had _nothing_ to do with all the other [Ati based] PGX_nn cards {PGX8/PGX24 onboard/PGX64 card and onboard} ... ... that these Permedia/PGX32 were also produced by 3DLabs for some time (after an aquisition). Of course for these I _did_ have a functioning Xorg ddx with acceleration, namely debugged glint. So my statement that my alternatives could not drive any card from 3DLabs was not correct. The PGX32 did work via a modified glint. wsfb - on the other hand - was not able to do that (at all). I never got it functioning on _anything_ else, but m64. The XVR-100 would come close, but the root-window would be garbage and then the box would freeze. No other card would work (on Solaris). On BSD and Linux it is only therefore more useful, because there kernel support exists for specific Sun cards, to which the console drivers there are linked against. wsfb had another (worse) issue on Solaris: It only started Xorg on the Simba PCI bridge, hence on your Ultra 10 (coincidence, that you had exactly that machine for testing [as well as on the identical Ultra 5]). And otherwise only (with src modifications in Xorg) on the Blade100/150. But on not much, probably nothing else I had tried back then. Because it would always SIGSEGV or SIGBUS during initialization of the old Xorg pre 1.5 userland PCI code. That's just for the archives. Maybe some interested person is reading this in 200 years. > All this is too well known But maybe this was not 100% clear from my > previous post. > I don't want, that somebody misunderstands me. > > > > All is nice, > Martin Bochnig > _______________________________________________ xwin-discuss mailing list [email protected] List info: http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/xwin-discuss Unsubscribe: http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/options/xwin-discuss
