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On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Ferris McCormick wrote: |
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>> | With mach64, the problem on sparc has been the hardware itself, if I |
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>> | remember correctly. That is, kernel, xorg are fine, but the mach64 |
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>> | card |
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>> | used on U5/U10 is memory-deficient. Someone who has looked at it more |
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>> | recently than I have will correct this. (There is a mach64-based sparc |
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>> | frame buffer which should be OK for DRI, but I've never seen one. I'll |
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>> | chase it down in the framebuffer handbook a little later.) |
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>> My u5 works just fine with DRI at 800x600 resolution, 16-bit color. Any |
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>> higher than this and you're right, not enough memory. |
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> That is new information for me; I had been led to believe otherwise, and |
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> I have not been in a position to verify for myself. Thanks. |
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The few times I have tried this, I hadn't been using that screen res/combo |
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so that could be a problem. |
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mach64 shows up a few ways on SPARC which can make life tricky. In the |
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Ultra 5/10 boxes, it comes as an onboard framebuffer in either 2MB or 4MB |
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RAM sizes depending on the age of the box. Similarly, the Blade 100/150 |
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has a mach64 with 8MB of RAM onboard (which is what I tested DRI on many |
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moons ago). Also there is the PGX24 framebuffer IIRC which is a PCI card |
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version of the mach64 that can be used in machines like an Ultra 30 or 60 |
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where there is no onboard framebuffer. |
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Another note is that the radeon driver should probably be considered for |
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the DRI list as the XVR-100 Sun framebuffer is a rebranded ATI Radeon 7000 |
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VE. I have one I can test with/on once I get back from LWE. |
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Cheers, |
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Jason Wever |
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Gentoo/Sparc Co-Team Lead |
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