On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:46 AM, Frank Middleton<f.middleton at apogeect.com> wrote: > There hasn't been much about this recently, and reading the > archives is confusing, at least to me. AFAIK there are such > things as drivers for the Sun UPA fbs, but they are not supplied > with Open Solaris. > > Will they ever be included with the standard Open Solaris > distribution for SPARC? > > For the time being are the drivers (and whatever else it takes) > available to be used with Open Solaris? > > I tried quite a few things that were mentioned in the xwin > and other archives, to no avail. This could be operator error > (not unknown!) or perhaps the documentation quite as clear > as it might be :-) > > I'd really like to get off SXDE and onto Open Solaris, but I > would miss the performance of those old Creator 3D cards and > it would be great to squeeze a bit more life out of them. > > If anyone has any insight into this, it would be great to > hear from you! > > Thanks -- Frank
Hi Frank, great to see your interest. Your UPA cards all work (the only UPA card that doesn't work with my patched Xorg sunffb driver [yet] is the XVR-1000). It came up, but no graphical root window). Elite / Creator 3d work smoothly, also in Xorg xserver 1.5.x and 1.6.x. Although not all Xorg extensions are supported by the sunffb driver, such as RandR. Although we could even try to add support based on other reference drivers. But later. First the important stuff (see archive). Hear from me. %martin
