Re: PGX64 driver issue - was: Re: Bullseye planned on sparc64?

2021-08-27 Thread James Bond
Hi Riccardo, ok, so where could we "hire" a graphics driver developer that would be willing (will get paid) to support the SPARC community? At least with a "decent" X support we can do most of the things. And the more people can use it on SPARC we may attract more people to return to the

Re: PGX64 driver issue - was: Re: Bullseye planned on sparc64?

2021-08-27 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Phillip Stevens wrote: > I can only comment on mach64 on 32 bit Sparc, it was working fine. The > desktop was reasonably responsive. Did you try the mach64 driver that was reintroduced to the Debian package archive? Not yet. How are things with it? I think I use

Re: PGX64 driver issue - was: Re: Bullseye planned on sparc64?

2021-08-24 Thread Mike Tremaine
For what it is worth I have XVR-100 on Ultra 5 which does provide graphics at 640x480 with the default fb… I would love support for XVR-100 (Raedon 7000) to come back and would be willing to add cash to the bounty if that route taken. Attached is my Xorg.0.logroot@xray:/var/log# uname -aLinux xray

Re: PGX64 driver issue - was: Re: Bullseye planned on sparc64?

2021-08-24 Thread Phillip Stevens
> > >> Did these boards work in the past with the 32-bit sparc ? > > > > I can only comment on mach64 on 32 bit Sparc, it was working fine. The > > desktop was reasonably responsive. > > Did you try the mach64 driver that was reintroduced to the Debian package > archive? Not yet. Can you verify

PGX64 driver issue - was: Re: Bullseye planned on sparc64?

2021-08-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 8/24/21 3:20 PM, Phillip Stevens wrote: >> It might also be an idea to contact the original author/maintainer of the >> PGX-64 and XVR-100 graphics boards and ask whether they're willing to fix >> the issue. >> >> Did these boards work in the past with the 32-bit sparc ? > > I can only comment