On Sun, 2012-03-25 at 23:05 -0400, Kieron Gillespie wrote: > No it's not supported by OBP, you have to wait until the nouveau > driver loads and then you get the console output. So currently I > removed the XVR-1200 which didn't work with Xorg and only have the > GeForce in there. Also another note, do not put the GeForce into the > green pci slots, they are 66Mhrz bus speed and cause the graphics card > to fail spectacularly, artifact rendering. Xorg works perfectly, you > even get hardware acceleration. The PCI 7200 GeForce I have also > tested causes a kernel panic in the nouveau driver, so it's currently > not usable. I ordered a very cheap PCI Radeon HD4350 and will be > testing that to see what the condition of the open source radeon > drivers are on SPARC. > > I just built the vanilla 3.2.13 kernel, and my sound now works again, > and the IOMMU messages seem to have disappeared. The machine is really > nice, and much quicker then the Sun Blade 100's I use to run on. All > in all I am very pleased with this machine. I do lots of toying around > in SPARC assembly and I enjoy writing experimental operating systems > on the SPARC architecture. I also would like to help support Linux > running on SPARC, and Debian which has become my favorite distro, is > the only real option you have for an up to date OS on SPARC systems.
Are you sure it's a XVR-1200 or a XVR-1000? A XVR-1200 got to be able to run at 66Mhz. It's based on a 3D-labs chiptset. The console is handled by the xvr-500 or the 600 kernel driver. 3D-labs is taken over by ATI. Glade you are almost happy now. Thanks, Frans van Berckel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
