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A few days ago, someone in #gentoo-sparc IRC was asking about this |
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XVR-500 graphics card, and I don't think he got any response. This |
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thread from Debian indicates there is a kernel driver for it. I don't |
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know off hand about Xorg support because I don't know what the card is. |
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Note below for the kernel .config options. |
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Begin forwarded message: |
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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:46:16 +0200 |
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From: Petr Vyslouzil <ptrv@×××××.cz> |
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To: Dave Barnett <barnetda@×××××××××.net> |
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Cc: jcristau@××××××.org, debian-sparc@××××××××××××.org |
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Subject: Re: XVR-500 support in Lenny |
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Dave, Julien, thanks for your replies. |
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I asked just to make sure I did not miss something obvious (like |
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the .config file in /boot dir :)). I've been wondering why Debian on |
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Sparc doesn't have compiled-in drivers for SUN's graphics cards. I can |
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confirm that sunxvr500 driver works flawlessly even with XVR-600 card |
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(although lspci shows wrong description), so at least all Sun Blade |
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[12]500 users would benefit. And I suppose that sunxvr2500 is not any |
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worse. So, please, could you consider to compile them in? The |
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difference between OpenBoot ansi terminal and XVR-600 framebuffer is |
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abysmal. |
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regards, |
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Petr |
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> Petr: |
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> Well, a google search turned up this page |
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> (http://merkel.debian.org/~jurij/) which has the Debian kernel |
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> configurations. |
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> The entry for 2.6.26-8 for sparc, "config-2.6.26-1-sparc64.gz |
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> <http://merkel.debian.org/%7Ejurij/2.6.26-8/sparc/config-2.6.26-1-sparc64.gz>" |
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> shows: |
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> # CONFIG_FB_XVR500 is not set |
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> # CONFIG_FB_XVR2500 is not set |
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> Does that help? |
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> [I was expecting to find information that tells me where the "config" |
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> file details are contained on a running system (under /proc, I thought), |
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> but I haven't found that, yet.... Perhaps that functionality isn't |
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> available / compiled into the sparc kernels...] |
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> Cheers, |
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> Dave |
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Regards, |
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Ferris |
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o> |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) |
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