On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Kieron Gillespie < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hello everyone, > > Thank you nouveau developers as it seems you may almost of a solution to > my lack of good graphics options for my aging sun system. > > Well, to be fair, you could probably use an AMD/ATI based card too...but I like NVidia cards. > I saw here before back in early December of 2011 a most of someone saying > that it seemed that the nouveau drivers almost worked with him and is Sun > Ultra 10. I am someone who is very fond of my Sun systems, I have two > "SunBlade 100"s, and a "Sun Ultra 5". I have always been annoyed at the > lack of good video card options when using these systems. I would love to > have more room on my screen then 1024x768. So when I saw this post on the > list > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2011-November/009619.htmlfrom > Patrick > * *Baggett baggett.patrick at > gmail.com<nouveau%40lists.freedesktop.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BNouveau%5D%20nouveau%20on%20Linux/sparc64%20--%20almost%21&In-Reply-To=%3C4ECC47F8.6020802%40gmail.com%3E>. > I kept my eyes open for some good old PCI Geforce. Well... I have a > Geforce, but it's not that old. I got my hands on a GeForce 8400 GS PCI and > yesterday tried it on Debian Squeeze. Well the module oops. So I felt the > next best thing was to try again with Wheezy, Debian unstable. I got a > little farther down the DRM driver initialization but it still oopses. > > I was wondering if any progress has been made since November. Is there a > ticket for this bug somewhere? > > Well, I actually ended up getting that GeForce MX 4000 (GF4 family) to play OpenArena for a while (I sent the message to this list -- it did eventually freeze, but not 100% sure why) -- so there has been a lot of progress whether or not it was intentional for SPARC. I'm using debian-testing (not unstable) "Linux 3.1.0-1-sparc64". > I'd like to try and give a hand with fixing the driver so that it works > with Sparc64 systems. I have experience with the Sparc architecture. I > don't have much experience with debugging drivers. I have a SunBlade 100, > Sun Ultra 5, and an x86_64 system to test on. > > I've attached the relevant message logs. I'm going to try to learn how to > start building the DRM module from source and start learning what I can do > to fix it. I hope that there are still some people other then me interested > in solving this problem. > > _______________________________________________ > Nouveau mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau > >
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