<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Kieron Gillespie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ciaran.gillespie@gmail.com">ciaran.gillespie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hello everyone,<br>
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Thank you nouveau developers as it seems you may almost of a
solution to my lack of good graphics options for my aging sun
system.<br>
<br></div></blockquote><div>Well, to be fair, you could probably use an AMD/ATI based card too...but I like NVidia cards.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I saw here before back in early December of 2011 a most of someone
saying that it seemed that the nouveau drivers almost worked with
him and is Sun Ultra 10. I am someone who is very fond of my Sun
systems, I have two "SunBlade 100"s, and a "Sun Ultra 5". I have
always been annoyed at the lack of good video card options when
using these systems. I would love to have more room on my screen
then 1024x768. So when I saw this post on the list <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2011-November/009619.html" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2011-November/009619.html</a>
from Patrick<b> </b>Baggett <a href="mailto:nouveau%40lists.freedesktop.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BNouveau%5D%20nouveau%20on%20Linux/sparc64%20--%20almost%21&In-Reply-To=%3C4ECC47F8.6020802%40gmail.com%3E" title="[Nouveau] nouveau on Linux/sparc64 -- almost!" target="_blank">baggett.patrick
at gmail.com</a>. I kept my eyes open for some good old PCI
Geforce. Well... I have a Geforce, but it's not that old. I got my
hands on a GeForce 8400 GS PCI and yesterday tried it on Debian
Squeeze. Well the module oops. So I felt the next best thing was to
try again with Wheezy, Debian unstable. I got a little farther down
the DRM driver initialization but it still oopses. <br>
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I was wondering if any progress has been made since November. Is
there a ticket for this bug somewhere?<br>
<br></div></blockquote><div>Well, I actually ended up getting that GeForce MX 4000 (GF4 family) to play OpenArena for a while (I sent the message to this list -- it did eventually freeze, but not 100% sure why) -- so there has been a lot of progress whether or not it was intentional for SPARC. I'm using debian-testing (not unstable) "Linux 3.1.0-1-sparc64".</div>
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I'd like to try and give a hand with fixing the driver so that it
works with Sparc64 systems. I have experience with the Sparc
architecture. I don't have much experience with debugging drivers. I
have a SunBlade 100, Sun Ultra 5, and an x86_64 system to test on.<br>
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I've attached the relevant message logs. I'm going to try to learn
how to start building the DRM module from source and start learning
what I can do to fix it. I hope that there are still some people
other then me interested in solving this problem.<br>
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