Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:20:04 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Solved: Re: trouble installing to sun blade 1500 Message-ID: <20091219182004.GA80336@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20091219125614.GV74529@alchemy.franken.de> References: <20091201215130.GA64974@alchemy.franken.de> <20091202124137.GA20168@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091202125915.GA20276@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091202192134.GA6562@alchemy.franken.de> <20091203131609.GA86854@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091203141711.GA43641@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091206161815.GA70140@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091207155713.GF6562@alchemy.franken.de> <20091218133634.GA89155@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091219125614.GV74529@alchemy.franken.de>
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On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 01:56:14PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote: > 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. sure. I don't use gnome anyway. But gobject-introspection is required by hal, which, in turn, is necessary for X. I typically just run mwm. > > 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. thank you -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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