Sun Blade 2500 + XVR-1200
Angus MacGyver
I have a Blade 2500 with an XVR-1200 card in the system
I have d/l and installed Squeeze (6.0) and after some "entertainment"
with regards to the MD devices, and delay on "wait for root" -I have the
system up and running....
However - not one that has a GUI.
The Framebuffer appears to work when in console mode, no corruption or
glitches, however, on starting X - whole host of corruption, and a
basically unusable display.
I've found some details from goolge'ing, and looking around the
archives, but I can't match my scenario to any of them - most of the
details I've found relate to problems even at the console/cmd line
level, and not at the GUI.
The one thing that I did check was that I had the package
xserver-xorg-ffb installed, and I do.
Any pointers to get this card working for X would be appreciated...
TIA.
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Michael Leicht
In Open BSD is a Xenocara driver included (reverse engineered) and - off course - in Solaris 10 the original Sun driver. As far as i know these two are the only Systems with GUI on a XVR 1200.
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Dirk Dettmann Mailinglisten
Am Sonntag, den 28.08.2011, 00:43 +0100 schrieb Angus MacGyver:
> ... installed Squeeze (6.0)
the kernel in Squeeze has no support for that graphic card, you need a
newer one, i'm running a XVR-1000 with 2.6.39-bpo.2-sparc64-smp. You
find that kernel at debian backports:
http://backports-master.debian.org/changes/squeeze-backports.html
HTH
Dirk
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Jurij Smakov
> Hi Angus,
>
> Am Sonntag, den 28.08.2011, 00:43 +0100 schrieb Angus MacGyver:
> > ... installed Squeeze (6.0)
>
> the kernel in Squeeze has no support for that graphic card, you need a
> newer one, i'm running a XVR-1000 with 2.6.39-bpo.2-sparc64-smp. You
> find that kernel at debian backports:
>
> http://backports-master.debian.org/changes/squeeze-backports.html
My knowledge of the situation with various sparc cards support by X is
summarized in the following posts:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2011/02/msg00019.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=392514
I'm not certain what the XVR-1000 card actually is, but if you have a
working X environment with it, please post your xorg.conf and the
output of lsmod.
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Jurij Smakov
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 02:58:05PM +0200, Dirk Dettmann Mailinglisten wrote:
> > Hi Angus,
> >
> > Am Sonntag, den 28.08.2011, 00:43 +0100 schrieb Angus MacGyver:
> > > ... installed Squeeze (6.0)
> >
> > the kernel in Squeeze has no support for that graphic card, you need a
> > newer one, i'm running a XVR-1000 with 2.6.39-bpo.2-sparc64-smp. You
> > find that kernel at debian backports:
> >
> > http://backports-master.debian.org/changes/squeeze-backports.html
>
> My knowledge of the situation with various sparc cards support by X is
> summarized in the following posts:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2011/02/msg00019.html
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=392514
>
> I'm not certain what the XVR-1000 card actually is, but if you have a
> working X environment with it, please post your xorg.conf and the
> output of lsmod.
Output of 'prtconf -pv | grep screen:' would be useful as well. On my
system this prints:
screen: '/pci@8,700000/SUNW,Expert3D-Lite@3'
And as far as I know, Expert3D cards are not supported, but I'm going
to try it with the newer kernel now.
Dirk Dettmann Mailinglisten
Am Sonntag, den 28.08.2011, 15:26 +0100 schrieb Jurij Smakov:
> > I'm not certain what the XVR-1000 card actually is, but if you have a
> > working X environment with it, please post your xorg.conf and the
> > output of lsmod.
There is no xorg.conf! I have to dump one with X -configure, but can't
do it while writing this email with evolution.
> Output of 'prtconf -pv | grep screen:' would be useful as well. On my
> system this prints:
>
> screen: '/pci@8,700000/SUNW,Expert3D-Lite@3'
dirk@u60:/etc$ sudo prtconf -pv|grep screen
output-device: 'screen'
screen-#columns: '80'
screen-#rows: '34'
screen: '/SUNW,gfb@1e,0'
dirk@u60:/etc$ sudo prtconf -pv
....
....
version: '@(#) gfb.fth 1.15 02/01/28 '
device-name: 'Sun XVR-1000 Graphics Accelerator, model D256'
sunw,lpm-ranges:
00000019.00000019.0000001e.00000021.00000023.00000033.00000028.0000003f
device_type: 'display'
model: 'SUNW,501-5865'
name: 'SUNW,gfb'
dirk@u60:/etc$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
parport_pc 24091 1
lp 8776 0
parport 26139 2 parport_pc,lp
cpufreq_conservative 5209 0
cpufreq_powersave 934 0
cpufreq_stats 2672 0
cpufreq_ondemand 5948 0
freq_table 2634 2 cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand
cpufreq_userspace 2216 0
binfmt_misc 6742 1
fuse 55781 1
ext2 65360 1
loop 12674 0
snd_sun_cs4231 17694 2
snd_pcm 65512 1 snd_sun_cs4231
snd_seq 45382 0
snd_timer 16868 3 snd_sun_cs4231,snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 4789 1 snd_seq
snd 49151 9
snd_sun_cs4231,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
evdev 8806 3
flash 2923 0
soundcore 5087 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 5029 2 snd_sun_cs4231,snd_pcm
ext3 127391 1
jbd 38708 1 ext3
mbcache 5363 2 ext2,ext3
sg 19937 0
sr_mod 13512 0
sd_mod 32208 4
cdrom 33943 1 sr_mod
crc_t10dif 1324 1 sd_mod
usb_storage 42519 0
uas 6999 0
ohci_hcd 17880 0
sym53c8xx 70544 3
ehci_hcd 34497 0
scsi_transport_spi 20291 1 sym53c8xx
usbcore 116424 5 usb_storage,uas,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
scsi_mod 165180 7
sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,usb_storage,uas,sym53c8xx,scsi_transport_spi
sunhme 25644 0
dirk@u60:/etc$
> And as far as I know, Expert3D cards are not supported, but I'm going
> to try it with the newer kernel now.
dirk@u60:/etc$ dmesg
.........
.........
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.39-bpo.2-sparc64-smp (Debian
2.6.39-3~bpo60+1) (nor...@tretkowski.de) (gcc version 4.4.5 (Debian
4.4.5-8) ) #1 SMP Thu Aug 4 13:03:02 UTC 2011
..........
..........
[ 0.000000] OF stdout device is: /SUNW,gfb@1e,0
..........
..........
[ 84.316454] gfb: Found device at /SUNW,gfb@1e,0
[ 84.316662] fbcon: gfb (fb0) is primary device
[ 84.362581] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64
..........
..........
Regards
Dirk
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Jurij Smakov
[...]
> dirk@u60:/etc$ dmesg
> .........
> .........
> [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.39-bpo.2-sparc64-smp (Debian
> 2.6.39-3~bpo60+1) (nor...@tretkowski.de) (gcc version 4.4.5 (Debian
> 4.4.5-8) ) #1 SMP Thu Aug 4 13:03:02 UTC 2011
> ..........
> ..........
> [ 0.000000] OF stdout device is: /SUNW,gfb@1e,0
> ..........
> ..........
> [ 84.316454] gfb: Found device at /SUNW,gfb@1e,0
> [ 84.316662] fbcon: gfb (fb0) is primary device
> [ 84.362581] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64
> ..........
> ..........
Cool, thanks for providing this information. It turns out that this
driver (sunxvr1000.c) was added in March 2010, so I was not aware of
its existence. Glad to hear it works.
In related news, I tried to run Xorg from wheezy on my machine and the
card (which uses e3d framebuffer from sunxvr500.c) appears to be much
more functional in X than it was last time I tried. The colors are all
wrong, and there are vertical black stripes crossing the screen, but
at least I can open a terminal window, etc. I'm going to see whether I
can tweak the framebuffer driver to improve the situation.
Best regards,
> Regards
> Dirk
>
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Dirk Dettmann Mailinglisten
.......
> In related news, I tried to run Xorg from wheezy on my machine and the
> card (which uses e3d framebuffer from sunxvr500.c) appears to be much
> more functional in X than it was last time I tried. The colors are all
> wrong, and there are vertical black stripes crossing the screen, but
> at least I can open a terminal window, etc. I'm going to see whether I
> can tweak the framebuffer driver to improve the situation.
Some time ago in August 2010 there was a discussion about "e3d" between
David Miller, Josip Rodin and Howard Eisenberger. You can find the mails
in the archive, maybe you get some helpful informations there.
Regards
Dirk
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Angus MacGyver
Hi All...
> Am Montag, den 29.08.2011, 20:16 +0100 schrieb Jurij Smakov:
> .......
> > In related news, I tried to run Xorg from wheezy on my machine and the
> > card (which uses e3d framebuffer from sunxvr500.c) appears to be much
> > more functional in X than it was last time I tried. The colors are all
> > wrong, and there are vertical black stripes crossing the screen, but
> > at least I can open a terminal window, etc. I'm going to see whether I
> > can tweak the framebuffer driver to improve the situation.
>
> Some time ago in August 2010 there was a discussion about "e3d" between
> David Miller, Josip Rodin and Howard Eisenberger. You can find the mails
> in the archive, maybe you get some helpful informations there.
>
> Regards
> Dirk
>
So I have installed the newer backported kernel...
Console is as before, lovely and working, just that X is corrupted -
blocky etc..
And follows the output of the various commands kind people have
supplied..
Anyone know if an XVR-100 would "just work" ? :-)
TIA
AM
root@dagobah:~# uname -a
Linux dagobah 2.6.39-bpo.2-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Thu Aug 4 13:03:02 UTC
2011 sparc64 GNU/Linux
root@dagobah:~# prtconf -pv | grep screen:
screen: '/pci@1f,700000/SUNW,XVR-1200@2'
root@dagobah:~# prtconf -pv | more
.........
Node 0xf00aec60
.node: f00aec60
linebytes: 00000800
character-set: 'ISO8859-1'
assigned-addresses:
c2001010.00000000.08000000.00000000.08000000.82001014.00000000.00100000.00000000.00020000.c2001018.00000000.02000000.00000000.02000000.82001030.00000000.00
120000.00000000.00010000
s-fru-len: 00000800
s-fru-offset: 0000f400
s-fru-dev: 'fcode-prom'
version: '@(#)jfb.fth 1.10 03/04/03 SMI '
reg:
00001000.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000.42001010.00000000.00000000.00000000.08000000.02001014.00000000.00000000.00000000.00020000.42001018.00000000.00000000.00000000
.02000000
monitor_mode: 00000012
v_freq: 0000003c
height: 00000400
width: 00000500
edid_data:
00ffffff.ffffff00.10ac26a0.53484130.28110103.80342178.ee9bb5a9.5434ae25.135054a5.4b008180.a940714f.b3000101.01010101.0101283c.80a070b0.23403020.36000744.2100001a.00
0000ff.00445234.37343741.34304148.53200000.00fc0044.454c4c32.34303757.46504843.000000fd.00384c1e.5311000a.20202020.20200052
no_edid_blks: 00000001
dev-comm: feda3578
device_type: 'display'
model: 'SUNW,375-3101'
name: 'SUNW,XVR-1200'
fcode-rom-offset: 00000000
66mhz-capable:
fast-back-to-back:
devsel-speed: 00000001
class-code: 00038000
interrupts: 00000001
latency-timer: 00000040
cache-line-size: 00000010
max-latency: 00000000
min-grant: 00000000
subsystem-id: 00001044
subsystem-vendor-id: 00003d3d
revision-id: 00000001
device-id: 000007a2
vendor-id: 00003d3d
Node 0xf00be258
.node: f00be258
assigned-addresses:
82001110.00000000.00130000.00000000.00002000
reg:
00001100.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000.02001110.00000000.00000000.00000000.00002000
compatible:
70636933.6433642c.3761322e.33643364.2e313034.342e3100.70636933.6433642c.3761322e.33643364.2e313034.34007063.69336433.642c3130.34340070.63693364.33642c37.61322e31.0
0706369.33643364.2c376132.00706369.636c6173.732c3033.38303030.00706369.636c6173.732c3033.383000
name: 'display'
66mhz-capable:
fast-back-to-back:
devsel-speed: 00000001
class-code: 00038000
latency-timer: 00000000
cache-line-size: 00000000
max-latency: 00000000
min-grant: 00000000
subsystem-id: 00001044
subsystem-vendor-id: 00003d3d
revision-id: 00000001
device-id: 000007a2
vendor-id: 00003d3d
.........
root@dagobah:~# lsmod
Module Size Used by
parport_pc 24091 1
lp 8776 0
parport 26139 2 parport_pc,lp
cpufreq_conservative 5209 0
cpufreq_userspace 2216 0
cpufreq_ondemand 5948 0
cpufreq_stats 2672 0
cpufreq_powersave 934 0
freq_table 2634 2 cpufreq_ondemand,cpufreq_stats
binfmt_misc 6742 1
fuse 55781 1
xfs 632740 1
ext2 65360 2
loop 12674 0
snd_ali5451 14175 0
snd_ac97_codec 106112 1 snd_ali5451
snd_pcm 65512 2 snd_ali5451,snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq 45382 0
evdev 8806 0
snd_timer 16868 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 4789 1 snd_seq
snd 49151 6
snd_ali5451,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 5087 1 snd
flash 2923 0
snd_page_alloc 5029 1 snd_pcm
ac97_bus 949 1 snd_ac97_codec
ext3 127391 1
jbd 38708 1 ext3
mbcache 5363 2 ext2,ext3
raid1 17925 3
md_mod 91419 4 raid1
sd_mod 32208 10
crc_t10dif 1324 1 sd_mod
usbhid 34056 0
hid 76992 1 usbhid
ide_cd_mod 26937 0
cdrom 33943 1 ide_cd_mod
ata_generic 3319 0
libata 158970 1 ata_generic
ide_pci_generic 3044 0
ohci_hcd 17880 0
mptspi 11827 8
mptscsih 17903 1 mptspi
mptbase 53604 2 mptspi,mptscsih
scsi_transport_spi 20291 1 mptspi
firewire_ohci 26655 0
ehci_hcd 34497 0
firewire_core 43747 1 firewire_ohci
scsi_mod 165180 5
sd_mod,libata,mptspi,mptscsih,scsi_transport_spi
usbcore 116424 4 usbhid,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
tg3 125757 0
crc_itu_t 1347 1 firewire_core
alim15x3 4326 0
libphy 14422 1 tg3
root@dagobah:~# dmesg
...
[ 75.563499] vgaarb: loaded
.....
[ 76.122862] e3d: Found device at 0003:00:02.0
[ 76.122970] fbcon: e3d (fb0) is primary device
[ 76.183231] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64
[ 76.240856] e3d: Ignoring secondary output device at 0003:00:02.1
,,,,,
[ 107.111362] vgaarb: this pci device is not a vga device
[ 107.132188] vgaarb: this pci device is not a vga device
TIA
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Dirk Dettmann Mailinglisten
Am Dienstag, den 30.08.2011, 16:54 +0100 schrieb Angus MacGyver:
> Anyone know if an XVR-100 would "just work" ? :-)
>
I found a statement of someone who buyed a XVR-100 for his blade 1500
and said that it operats with debian lenny, its dated the 08.September
2010:
http://www.sonnenblen.de/index.php/topic,6312.0.html
(It's a german sun board and i don't know if you can read it without
being a member)
Regards
Dirk
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