On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Richard L. Hamilton <rlhamil at smart.net> wrote: > ...except that for those of us who don't want to give up our SPARC > workstations > (and don't have the very last one, with one of the two remaining supported > graphics cards for SPARC), it's not there yet, I think.
Hey, if you can afford the electricity-bill, then absolutely. I was forced to downgrade my electro-footprint (and consequently use a Dual-Core x64 Laptop with the complete spectrum of virtualization techniques around), as web-server, workstation and modern-day Desktop. And of course for development plus long builds. To do all that at once, I would be required to run my tow beloved Blade 2000's simultanously, plus run SunPCi-3 in one of them (with Solaris x86, it is possible ...) This means (I measured it), that I would permanently consume 500 to 600 Watts. Now I only need 50 Watts. That's quite a difference at the end of the year. It is enough to make holidays in a 4-Stat beach resort. But back to xwin ... > The best I can hope right now is that your port of the Creator-3D driver > gets incorporated (hopefully with 1920x1080 support for the models capable > of it). ?My XVR-1000? ?Not much hope there, I think... As I once wrote: I had a XVR-1000 for a few months and tried it. The ffb/ffb+/ffb2/ffb2+ and afb boards versus the XVR-1000 (ffb3) do have some chipsets in common, such as DAC for example. The best I could get was, that the Xorg server started up and printed the common messages into Xorg.0.log, including "found this" and "detected that". Even pressing the middle mouse button brought console messages to stdout. HOWEVER: Unfortunately no root-Window was created at all. This goes beyond my knowledge and understanding, you would need to ask the original authors of the sunffb driver who once wrote if for LinUX ten years ago. Other approach: On some SPARC-BSD's the wsfb driver appears to work on XVR-1000 in unacellerated dumb frame buffer mode. Alan Coopersmith once ported 90% of the WSFB driver to OpenSolaris. Why do I say 90%? Unfortunately - again - depends and builds the original BSD-WSFB driver "on top" of BSD's console driver (/dev/fb kernel module). WSFB makes use of functionality that either has different names on Solaris or does not exist at all in that form. See fbio(7I). So, unless you find someone on the xorg-devel list who wants to do this, plus who reverse-engineers missing undocumented register addresses and what else might be required, it is difficult to predict, if we will ever get XVR-1000 working. Your best bet for UPA is Creator 3D or Elite 3D (or just "Creator"). -- %martin
