Re: XVR-600 console not working with e3d [was Re: please restore Sun XVR video drivers, and add the latest one [was Re: Debian Sparc 5.4 on Sun blade 2500]]

[Josip Rodin <joy@entuzijast.net>]

> > >> 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
> 
> OK, so the conclusion from this is that either e3d (sunxvr500) driver needs
> some fixes to support XVR-600, or we need some way of getting the other one
> to activate?
> 
> Cc:ing kernel mailing list in case someone there has better input.
> I found a thread from March this year where Dave was trying and failing
> to reproduce a similar setup - maybe Howard can provide the missing link
> now.

One more thing - Howard, can you please see:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2010/03/msg00036.html
That link to a test kernel image in that message still works, so you could
try it and report back.

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