Hi! Paul Gress wrote: > > Looking at the matrix you developed, it appears my > XVR1200 is hopeless
Pretty much so, except 3DLabs ever opens the specs. Even on Linux_x86 you depend on closed bins for those chipsets (which don't exist for SPARC-Solaris-Xorg). It is a long story. Linux kernel genius David Miller is currently working on a basic console driver for the XVR-500 ( http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.6/22/drivers/video/sunxvr500.c ) and XVR-2500 ( http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.6/22/drivers/video/sunxvr2500.c ), which in turn shall function as foundation to get into some slow unaccellerated X11 graphics mode in dumb frame buffer mode via using the fbdev ddx module (Linux-only, builts on top of the console drivers, which are closely Linux-kernel-specific). Not much hope for us, to get the more modern 3DLabs chipsets working on SPARC. On x86 you might get the vesa_drv.so ddx module to drive such a card, but nobody ever got the vesa ddx module working oon whatever non-x86 platform (maybe except on the freescale PowerPC boxes with their x86-bios-emu layer directly at IEEE-1275 level). > on my Blade 2500. The SB2500 will work with libpciaccess. Alan Coopersmith and Sun's X11 group are currently doing a great job by merging and developing in their 1.3 patches into the new 1.5.1 gate. I'm doing my part to get this working on sparc, but the api between Xorg's bus scanning and libpciaccess is still broken on SPARC. I got it to detect the bridges and *some* cards, but for some reason the matching comes to wrong conclusions, e.g. it would suggest a network or SCSI card for use as frame buffer ;-) > But, I also have two Ultra2's with > the Elite3D-M6 > graphics cards (Horizontal version). You placed N/A > for it, I assume > that means it's incompatible for that hardware > platform. It should > probably be labeled either No or Yes. I'm lucky because you spotted a copy and paste error. And you can be lucky, because this combination is supported. At first I had the columns in a different order, then copied and pasted around. Thanks you reported this. I correct it instantly. The afb and ffb cards are ALL supported by Xorg's sunffb_drv.so ddx module after my patches are added, no matter if horiz. or vertical, m3 or m6 or whatever. The driver written by Jakub Jelinek (from Red Hat, for Linux) may not support all fancy extensions, but it works, supports sufficient resolutions, supports xinerama and is damn stable now. > Any way, keep up the good work, I will keep a keen > eye on this. > > > Paul Thank you. I do this for fun. And for people like you or Ken Mays or a handful of others, who provide valuable feedback from time to time. Martin -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
