Solved: Re: trouble installing to sun blade 1500

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 04:57:13PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote:
> > 
> > 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).

Marius, thank you. I bought on of those (15 pounds, ebay)
and it seems to work ok in the text mode.
I haven't yet built X successfully, still some errors
in devel/gobject-intospection

Could you also recommend a wireless network card
for blade 1500?

many thanks
anton

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