On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 10:15:46AM -0400, William Schaub wrote: > I have recently installed OpenBSD 4.7 on my SunBlade 2000 with an > XVR-500 framebuffer. > The documentation lead me to believe that the XVR-500 as decently > supported but that > appears to not be the case. It only does about 7bpp and does not > have much in the way of > acceleration. After looking at the driver I found out that nobody > will release the hardware > info for this card so i gave up on it. > > > I ended up ripping an Elite3D card out of an old Ultra 10 and that > at least gives me 24bpp > but there are still lots of problems with it (all OpenGL looks like > a photo negative, > rdesktop displays in reversed color as well) > > I'm guessing one of the ATI chipset based cards would be better > supported over all > so what I want to know is which card is the best performing and best > supported currently > on the sparc64 port of OpenBSD so that i can just buy that card and > have X working 100%. > > I mainly use this machine as my primary deskop and want to view > movies in mplayer ocasionally > but would like to be able to do decent 3D acceleration as well. Honestly, given your specifications, none of the sparc64 framebuffers is going to give you satisfaction.
There is no accelerated 3D support, and no reasonable Xvideo support on any of them for now, mostly because lack of developper support (most of the upstreams X.Org developpers don't care about non Linux, non x86 hardware). For your goals any cheap 2nd hand reasonably recent (less than 4 years old) i386 or amd64 based machine is going to give you a better desktop experience. pick up a r300 based radeon graphics card for both 3D and XVideo support. Or prepare to invest some time and energy working with oga@ and kettenis@ to improve the support for sparc64 framebuffers in OpenBSD. -- Matthieu Herrb
