Re: please restore Sun XVR video drivers, and add the latest one
On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 00:00 +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:52:43PM +0200, joy wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:09:06AM -0400, Howard Eisenberger wrote:
> > > If it helps, I did this with the XVR-600 in my Ultra 60, but the
> > > output stops with:
> > >
> > > [ 0.000000] OF stdout device is: /pci@1f,2000/SUNW,XVR-600@1
> > > ...
> > > [ 0.000000] Console: colour dummy device 80x25
> > > [ 0.000000] console [tty0] enabled, bootconsole disabled
> > >
> > > I am able to ssh into the machine.
> > >
> > > # uname -a
> > > Linux ultra60 2.6.32-5-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Thu Aug 12 18:24:18 \
> > > UTC 2010 sparc64 GNU/Linux
> > >
> > > # lspci -v
> > > 0001:80:01.0 Display controller: 3DLabs Sun XVR-500 Graphics \
> > > Accelerator (rev 01)
> > > Subsystem: 3DLabs Device 1047
> > > Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel, IRQ 22
> > > Memory at 04000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
> > > Memory at 08000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
> > > Memory at 0a000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
> > > [virtual] Memory at fffffe0100000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> > > [size=1]
> > > [virtual] Memory at fffffe0100000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> > > [size=1]
> > > [virtual] Memory at fffffe0100000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> > > [size=1]
> > > Expansion ROM at fffffe0100000000 [disabled] [size=1]
> > > Capabilities: [68] Power Management version 1
> > > Kernel driver in use: e3d
> > >
> > > (I installed a Creator video card when I acquired this machine a
> > > few years ago and have been using it with a Sun monitor.)
> >
> > So it doesn't look like the kernel framebuffer drivers picked it up.
> > So that should be 3d3d:1047... but from the looks of it, that's not
> > the detection method on sparc, the driver is just looking for "SUNW,gfb"
> > in the PROM data.
> >
> > Can you install sparc-utils and run prtconf -v, and see if anything like
> > that comes up?
>
> Oh, and on second thought, also it looks like e3d is the signature of the
> XVR-500 class driver (drivers/video/sunxvr500.c). That one also matches
> devices by PCI subdevice ID (0x0140 or 0x1024) which is probably how you
> get it.
>
> dmesg | grep e3d # ?
Did you patch with ... sunxvr500 : Additional PCI id for sunxvr500
driver by Ben Hutchings ... to get it to run?
http://tinyurl.com/2wrgycw
Frans van Berckel
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