Solved: Re: trouble installing to sun blade 1500

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 04:57:13PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote:
> > 
> > Now my problem is graphics, or at least a text console.
> > It looks like I've this graphics card (Sun data calles
> > is graphics accelerator, but this the only graphics
> > device in my 1500 blades, there is no other):
> > 
> > 	Option	Part		description:
> > 	X3780A 	375-3153 	XVR-600 Graphics Accelerator
> > 
> > 3D LABS 54-001047-001 XVR-600 64MB PCI GRAPHICS CARD
> > 
> > Anybody used this card with Sun?
> > Is this card really not supported at all, even for
> > text console?
> 
> What you can do with 7.2 (with 8.0 an later this currently
> requires the attached patch) in order to get a more or
> rather less working text console with any hardware is to
> build a kernel with ofw_console(4), but this requires all
> other console and related drivers to be removed, i.e.
> ddb(4), atkbdc(4) and its child drivers, kbdmux(4), sc(4),
> creator(4), machfb(4), splash(4), puc(4), scc(4), uart(4)
> and all of usb(4).
> 
> > 
> > If I can get nowhere with this card, any advice for
> > a card I could buy for Sun Blade 1500 (red or silver)?
> 
> Sun PGX64 would be a good choice as they even allow to
> use accelerated X with decent resolution (which is
> unlikely to ever work with most of the XVR cards as
> Sun didn't open source their drivers nor release the
> necessary documentation).

what about OpenBSD drivers: http://www.openbsd.org/45.html

under what's new:

# ifb(4), a driver for Sun Expert3D, Expert3D-Lite, XVR-500, XVR-600 and XVR-1200 framebuffers (accelerated).
# wildcatfb(4), an X driver for Sun Expert3D, Expert3D-Lite, XVR-500, XVR-600 and XVR-1200 framebuffers (unaccelerated).

Is it feasible to port a driver from obsd to fbsd?

many thanks
anton

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