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From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
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Subject: Re: Solved: Re: trouble installing to sun blade 1500
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On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 01:36:34PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> 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

You'll likely want to use a more lightweight window manager 
than GNOME like for example windowmaker on a Blade 1500
anyway.

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

Some time ago ath(4) was fixed to work on sparc64 but I'm
not aware of its current state.

Marius