Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:36:34 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Solved: Re: trouble installing to sun blade 1500 Message-ID: <20091218133634.GA89155@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20091207155713.GF6562@alchemy.franken.de> References: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0912011723060.21559@servww6.ww.uni-erlangen.de> <20091201165752.GA12095@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <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>
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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 Could you also recommend a wireless network card for blade 1500? many thanks anton -- 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
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