From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 19 18:20:12 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 419821065672 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:20:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirj.bris.ac.uk (dirj.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED5CC8FC1F for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:20:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from isis.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.63]) by dirj.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NM3uR-0006kP-Cr; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:20:10 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by isis.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1NM3uP-0001wl-7C; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:20:06 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nBJIK5WR097882; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:20:05 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nBJIK4wx097877; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:20:04 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:20:04 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: Marius Strobl Message-ID: <20091219182004.GA80336@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091219125614.GV74529@alchemy.franken.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Spam-Score: -1.5 X-Spam-Level: - Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Solved: Re: trouble installing to sun blade 1500 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:20:12 -0000 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