FUP to: Booting Sparc Blade 150 w/ ATI Rage XL (xlinit.c)

["Grzegorz B. Prokopski" <gadek@debian.org>]

Hi!

The problem was that in this machine there's also an additional
video card [1] to which the monitor was connected. After switching
monitor output to on-board card - it generally works. Excuse me
- I am really new to sparc hardware (bye bye 3 days of hard trying).

However I am not entirely happy w/ this onboard card.
I *also* have an U10 machine w/ 
fb0: Creator 3D at 000001fc00000000 type 51 DAC 10
atyfb: 3D RAGE PRO (PQFP, PCI) [0x4750 rev 0x7c] 4M SGRAM, 14.31818 MHz
XTAL, 230 MHz PLL, 100 Mhz MCLK
and an on-board fb1: ATY Mach64 frame buffer device on PCI (unused)

This Creator 3D is:

1. Much faster in displaying changes even though the machine is
~twice slower
2. Doesn't show this strange "scratches" every time anything in the
screen content changes - which is very annoying while I am
using B150's ATY Mach64 on-board card.

Now scrictly about B150 - w/o removing PCI card I get:
atyfb: 3D RAGE (XL) [0x4752 rev 0x27] 8M SDRAM, 29.498928 MHz XTAL, 230
MHz PLL, 100 Mhz MCLK
fb0: ATY Mach64 frame buffer device on PCI

and this is what I use. (no text console though because I left the
additional PCI card inside, but I get video after X start)

Questions:

1. Is it possible to somehow eliminate these "scratches" while
using on-board card?
Is it normal or am I the only one that gets them? (21'' monitor, not
LCD if that matters). linux-2.4.22.

2. Would it be possible to get this additional PCI card in b150
working under linux? It's XVR-500 in /proc/pci it is seen as:

  Bus  1, device   0, function  0:
    Display controller: PCI device 3d3d:07a2 (3DLabs) (rev 1).
      IRQ 7016480.
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x1ff04000000 [0x1ff05ffffff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x1ff03000000 [0x1ff0301ffff].
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x1ff06000000 [0x1ff06ffffff].

http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Devices/Graphics/GRAPH_XVR_500.html

While reading "Installation manual" (available in PDF under above
address) I found:

XVR-500 (Expert3D-Lite compatible)
16MB SDRAM display list memory
16MB on-board SDRAM texure memory ...
32MB of frame buffer SDRAM memory

I'd be thanful for any help

				Grzegorz B. Prokopski