X.org Server for Ultra45 with XVR-300

Pat Kane pekane52 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 6 09:24:41 PDT 2007


Alan and Jay,

Thanks for the help.    I was able to hack the sunCfb
code to get a X root image and X cursor to appear
on the Ultra 45's framebuffer.  The image is a bit odd,
the scan lines (some?) are shift about half the screen
width.  But the experiment is good enuf to prove that
I can access the hardware.

PEK
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On 8/3/07, Jay Cotton <Jay.Cotton at sun.com> wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > Pat Kane wrote:
> >
> >> Can the X.org X server run on a SUN Ultra45 with an XVR-300 graphics
> >> card?  An "ls -l /dev/fbs" shows this:
> >>
> >>   nfb0 -> ../../devices/pci at 1f,700000/SUNW,XVR-300 at 0:nfb0
> >>   nfb0a -> ../../devices/pci at 1f,700000/SUNW,XVR-300 at 0:nfb0a
> >>   nfb0b -> ../../devices/pci at 1f,700000/SUNW,XVR-300 at 0:nfb0b
> >>
> >
> > I haven't tried it, but the XVR-300 is a Sun-badged version of
> > the ATI FireMV 2200 (PCI-E), so you may be able to get the
> > radeon driver to work with it.
> >
> >
> you will need the aperture driver.  That you can get from marTux, all of
> this will be at
> opensolaris.org  soon.
>
> jc
>
>



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