From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PCIe Graphic card for SPARC T1000/2000 Platform
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:37:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080328.173715.55485309.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47ED8CBC.8050900@Sun.COM>
From: Nasser Shayesteh <Nasser.Shayesteh@Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:26:36 -0700
> I have a SPARC T2000 system installed with Ubuntu 7.10 Server Edition
> running "2.6.22-14-sparc64-smp" kernel.
>
> I am interested to know whether anyone knows of any low power PCIe
> graphics card and corresponding driver that works on T1000T2000 SPARC
> based platforms.
>
> I also tried Nvidia (NVS440) graphic card without the FCODE to see if
> I can start X using the nvidiafb.ko driver that comes with stock Ubuntu
> kernel distribution for servers. The device was recognized OK. However,
> there is a fatal mmap() failure.
NVIDIA isn't going to work, Radeon (XVR-100) cards should
work if you configure X to use the "fb" acceleration-less
driver.
The state of X is very poor under Linux at the moment,
although it should improve substantially in future
releases.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-29 0:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-29 0:26 PCIe Graphic card for SPARC T1000/2000 Platform Nasser Shayesteh
2008-03-29 0:37 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-04-19 0:32 ` Nasser Shayesteh
2008-04-19 0:45 ` David Miller
2008-04-19 0:48 ` David Miller
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