You may have to go with AcceleratedX from XiG.
I had Solaris 2.6 running on my 3200 but was only able to get it working with
AcceleratedX/Laptop edition. I seriously doubt Sun will ever come out with
drivers for the rage Pro LT -- from what I have heard, they have basically
abandoned laptop support with Solaris 7 (i.e. no new dirvers). If anyone has
heard otherwise, please correct me.
Also, even if you are able to get a driver for the Rage Pro LT, Solaris 2.6 (and
I'm pretty sure Solaris 7 as well) does not have a CardBus driver, so you'll be
hard-pressed to get any PCMCIA cards working in the 7000 (or the 3200). This is
why I eventually abandoned running Solaris on my laptop and loaded Linux.
Supposedly the TI CardBus chipset that Dell uses can be put into pcic (I think
that's the acronym... I'm not a hardware guy :-)) compatibility mode. Toshiba
uses the same chipset in some of their laptops and allows you to set pcic
compatability mode through the BIOS setup utility. Dell does not provide for
this, and when I contacted Dell about it, they told me to contact to the company
that supplies them with the BIOS. That proved to be a dead end. Bottom line,
without a CardBus driver for Solaris 2.6 or 7, you can't get any PCMCIA cards
working.
It is possible that my information is out of date here. If so, I'd like to hear
about it. I'd love to get Solaris 2.6 or 7 running on my I7k!
JR
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> Hi all,
>
> Any one tried to run Solaris 7 (CDE) with I7K (15")? The device drivers
> for ATI Rage Pro does not work (i.e. there are no drivers for LT). The
> only drivers that work is VGA with 16 colors (and very low resulotion).
>
> Regards, Rikard -- from SWEDEN, long live the moose!
>
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