1. Forum
  2. Usenet
  3. LINUX.DEBIAN.PORTS.SPARC

  • sun4u pci Video Card recommendations [openboot not required]?

    From Mike Tremaine@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 15 21:20:02 2020
    Given the state of the old video drivers missing or non-functioning in modern Xorg does anyone have any recommendations for PCI Card that should work well enough on the old hardware. In my case that’s an Ultra 5, Openboot support is not a requirement.

    Currently I have PGX32 but the glint driver is gone, as is the mach64, I might have XVR-100 in storages but I hear the radeonfb is iffy also.

    -Mike

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Connor McLaughlan@21:1/5 to onitake@gmail.com on Sun Sep 20 03:30:01 2020
    On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 2:13 PM Gregor Riepl <onitake@gmail.com> wrote:

    Hi Mike,

    Given the state of the old video drivers missing or non-functioning
    in modern Xorg does anyone have any recommendations for PCI Card that should work well enough on the old hardware. In my case that’s an
    Ultra 5, Openboot support is not a requirement.

    Currently I have PGX32 but the glint driver is gone, as is the
    mach64, I might have XVR-100 in storages but I hear the radeonfb is
    iffy also.

    https://salsa.debian.org/xorg-team/driver/xserver-xorg-video-mach64 and https://salsa.debian.org/xorg-team/driver/xserver-xorg-video-sunffb are
    still there.

    Even though the packages are gone, the drivers may still work.

    sunffb needs some changes, which are available in my fork: https://salsa.debian.org/onitake-guest/xserver-xorg-video-sunffb

    Adrian: Do you know if these packages can introduced back into
    debian-ports in some way? I think we discussed this before, but I don't remember what came out of it...

    Regards,
    Greg


    I would also need those drivers for my Ultra 10 and Blade 100.

    @Mike: for now you can use the fbdev driver. You need to manually set
    up your Xorg configuration with modelines and stuff.
    It will not be fast, but usable for a basic desktop, if you use lxde
    or mate with openbox.

    Regards,
    Connor

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)