Ariel wrote: > Well, after see lot of people like me trying to put your XVR-600 /XVR-1200 on > SPARC64 platform with an open-source OS, I would like to share my experience > and a light of hope. > I have a Sun Blade 100 2Gb and XVR-600 working on Sol10 (yes! in a Blade-100 > XVR-600 work nice, not a Blade-150 as minimum on Sun docs). > > After that I decide upgrade this machine to Open-source world... > First with opensolaris but currently the installation mode for SPARC not > allow a LiveCD, only Jumpstart like. Ok... but stop! XVR-600 unsupported ... > console-mode only today is some sad. > Ok, try other flavor: Debian for SPARC. Better, sunxvr500 console driver > recognize as framebuffer graphic card XVR-500 (because card ID are equal) > and start in this mode showing Linux logo at color, 1280x1024 console... > fine!. > But.. Xorg can't run because no driver available to use... :( > > Ok... last chance OpenBSD 4.5 for SPARC64 (release date 1May 2009), on > release notes say: > [i] # ifb(4), a driver for Sun Expert3D, Expert3D-Lite, XVR-500, XVR-600 and > XVR-1200 framebuffers (accelerated). > # wildcatfb(4), an X driver for Sun Expert3D, Expert3D-Lite, XVR-500, XVR-600 > and XVR-1200 framebuffers (unaccelerated). [/i] > Wow, unbelievable! I need install to see this! > But release is not available (today April,7 2009). Don't worry...install > OpenBSD 4.4 for Sparc, then checkout OpenBSD Kernel 4.5 to build, and finally > checkout X driver for wildcat > (http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/xenocara/driver/xf86-video-wildcatfb/). > > Conclusion: OpenBSD 4.5 and XVR-600 work nice!! Finally I have a Xorg running > on my Sun Blade 100 and XVR-600... and this isn't Sun/3Dlabs proprietary :) > > Today the OpenBSD community has a new collaborator and fan that will buy the > OpenBSD 4.5 CD: me. > > I think that the community of developers for OpenSolaris, and Linux can see > this OpenBSD code as example to support this hardware. > > Regards, > > MrSparc. >
I guess what you need to do is download the XVR600 driver for Opensolaris located at: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/sparc_graphics/ Paul
