On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:46:16AM +0200, Petr Vyslouzil wrote: > Dave, Julien, thanks for your replies. > > I asked just to make sure I did not miss something obvious (like the > .config file in /boot dir :)). I've been wondering why Debian on Sparc > doesn't have compiled-in drivers for SUN's graphics cards. I can confirm > that sunxvr500 driver works flawlessly even with XVR-600 card (although > lspci shows wrong description), so at least all Sun Blade [12]500 users > would benefit. And I suppose that sunxvr2500 is not any worse. > So, please, could you consider to compile them in? The difference between > OpenBoot ansi terminal and XVR-600 framebuffer is abysmal.
[adding debian-boot since it relates to the problems with installer on Sunblade 1000 which I recently reported] Petr, can you please try the images I've built from http://www.wooyd.org/debian/kernel/ They are the same as Debian's stock kernels, except that the CONFIG_FB_XVR500 and CONFIG_FB_XVR2500 are enabled (note that it does not make sense to build framebuffer drivers as modules, because they are used early during boot). I was hoping that enabling them will fix problems with the installer (black-and-white terminal, with invisible menu highlight) on my SunBlade 1000, however there is a PCI id mismatch which makes it not work for me. The XVR-500 framebuffer driver supports PCI ID 3d3d:07a0 (vendor is 3D Labs) while my card is reported as 1901:07a0 (vendor is Intergraph). Since 3D Labs bought Intergraph at some point, there is a chance that this is the same chip, but I will have to rebuild the kernel again to test it. Cheers. > regards, > Petr > >> Petr: >> >> Well, a google search turned up this page >> (http://merkel.debian.org/~jurij/) which has the Debian kernel >> configurations. >> >> The entry for 2.6.26-8 for sparc, "config-2.6.26-1-sparc64.gz >> <http://merkel.debian.org/%7Ejurij/2.6.26-8/sparc/config-2.6.26-1-sparc64.gz>" >> >> shows: >> >> # CONFIG_FB_XVR500 is not set >> # CONFIG_FB_XVR2500 is not set >> >> Does that help? >> >> [I was expecting to find information that tells me where the "config" >> file details are contained on a running system (under /proc, I >> thought), but I haven't found that, yet.... Perhaps that functionality >> isn't available / compiled into the sparc kernels...] >> >> Cheers, >> Dave > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
