Re: XVR-500 support in Lenny

[Petr Vyslouzil <ptrv@email.cz>]

Dave, Julien, thanks for your replies.

I asked just to make sure I did not miss something obvious (like the .config file in /boot 
dir :)). I've been wondering why Debian on Sparc doesn't have compiled-in drivers for 
SUN's graphics cards. I can confirm that sunxvr500 driver works flawlessly even with 
XVR-600 card (although lspci shows wrong description), so at least all Sun Blade [12]500 
users would benefit. And I suppose that sunxvr2500 is not any worse.
So, please, could you consider to compile them in? The difference between OpenBoot ansi 
terminal and XVR-600 framebuffer is abysmal.

regards,
	Petr

> Petr:
>
> Well, a google search turned up this page 
> (http://merkel.debian.org/~jurij/) which has the Debian kernel 
> configurations.
>
> The entry for 2.6.26-8 for sparc, "config-2.6.26-1-sparc64.gz 
> <http://merkel.debian.org/%7Ejurij/2.6.26-8/sparc/config-2.6.26-1-sparc64.gz>" 
> shows:
>
> # CONFIG_FB_XVR500 is not set
> # CONFIG_FB_XVR2500 is not set
>
> Does that help?
>
> [I was expecting to find information that tells me where the "config" 
> file details are contained on a running system (under /proc, I thought), 
> but I haven't found that, yet....  Perhaps that functionality isn't 
> available / compiled into the sparc kernels...]
>
> Cheers,
> Dave