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01-16-2008, 02:29 PM
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 XVR-500 in Ultra5 Hi! I bought a XVR-500 really cheap to get a bit hardware-accelerated OpenGL in my Ultra5 (440MHz, 512MB, 18GB SCSI-HDD, latest OBP). I know the card isn't supported in the Ultra5, but shouldn't I get the card listed by "show-displays" or "prtconf"? Is the card defective if can't see it in the outputs of the two commands or is it just an issue with the Ultra5? Has anyone managed to build a recent X.org or XFree86 on Solaris10/Sparc to get hw-accelerated OGL with a XVR-100 (the XVR-100 works with the U5)? Orgel -- I have seen things you lusers would not believe. I've seen Sun monitors on fire off the side of the multimedia lab. I've seen NTU lights glitter in the dark near the Mail Gate. All these things will be lost in time, like the root partition last week.      |
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01-16-2008, 02:30 PM
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| Re: XVR-500 in Ultra5 torgel70@netscape.net writes in comp.sys.sun.hardware: |I bought a XVR-500 really cheap to get a bit hardware-accelerated |OpenGL in my Ultra5 (440MHz, 512MB, 18GB SCSI-HDD, latest OBP). | |I know the card isn't supported in the Ultra5, but |shouldn't I get the card listed by "show-displays" or "prtconf"? | |Is the card defective if can't see it in the outputs of the two |commands or is it just an issue with the Ultra5? Did you add the XVR-500 drivers and boot -r? |Has anyone managed to build a recent X.org or XFree86 on |Solaris10/Sparc to get hw-accelerated OGL with a XVR-100 |(the XVR-100 works with the U5)? To get hw accelerated OGL with XFree86/X.org you'ld also have to port DRI to the Solaris kernel, which is not a small task. -- __________________________________________________ ______________________ Alan Coopersmith * alanc@alum.calberkeley.org * Alan.Coopersmith@Sun.COM http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~alanc/ * http://blogs.sun.com/alanc/ Working for, but definitely not speaking for, Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
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01-16-2008, 02:30 PM
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| Re: XVR-500 in Ultra5 Alan Coopersmith <alanc@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote: > |Is the card defective if can't see it in the outputs of the two > |commands or is it just an issue with the Ultra5? > > Did you add the XVR-500 drivers and boot -r? I did a "touch /reconfigure" and rebooted. I thought drivers are allready shipped with solaris10 (I just found drivers for solaris8/9) but I will give it a try. But what about "show-displays"? That shouldn't depend on solaris drivers. > |Has anyone managed to build a recent X.org or XFree86 on > |Solaris10/Sparc to get hw-accelerated OGL with a XVR-100 > |(the XVR-100 works with the U5)? > > To get hw accelerated OGL with XFree86/X.org you'ld also have to port > DRI to the Solaris kernel, which is not a small task. And a bit beyond my capabilities, I think. Would I get a satisfying 2D-performance at least? The performance of xsun in this constellation is terrible (my P3@450 with a Matrox G400 is much faster). Orgel -- I have seen things you lusers would not believe. I've seen Sun monitors on fire off the side of the multimedia lab. I've seen NTU lights glitter in the dark near the Mail Gate. All these things will be lost in time, like the root partition last week. |
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01-16-2008, 02:30 PM
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| Re: XVR-500 in Ultra5 torgel70@netscape.net writes in comp.sys.sun.hardware: |Alan Coopersmith <alanc@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote: | |> |Is the card defective if can't see it in the outputs of the two |> |commands or is it just an issue with the Ultra5? |> |> Did you add the XVR-500 drivers and boot -r? | |I did a "touch /reconfigure" and rebooted. I thought drivers are |allready shipped with solaris10 (I just found drivers for solaris8/9) |but I will give it a try. For some reason, the Solaris installer usually only installs the graphics drivers for the hardware present at install time. The drivers should be in the install media and you could probably pkgadd their packages if you find them, based on the list of those included in the driver downloads for earlier releases. -- __________________________________________________ ______________________ Alan Coopersmith * alanc@alum.calberkeley.org * Alan.Coopersmith@Sun.COM http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~alanc/ * http://blogs.sun.com/alanc/ Working for, but definitely not speaking for, Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
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01-16-2008, 02:30 PM
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| Re: XVR-500 in Ultra5 In article <dgpake$1f0g$1@agate.berkeley.edu>, Alan Coopersmith <alanc@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote: >torgel70@netscape.net writes in comp.sys.sun.hardware: >|I bought a XVR-500 really cheap to get a bit hardware-accelerated >|OpenGL in my Ultra5 (440MHz, 512MB, 18GB SCSI-HDD, latest OBP). >| >|I know the card isn't supported in the Ultra5, but >|shouldn't I get the card listed by "show-displays" or "prtconf"? >| If "prtconf -pv" isn't seeing it, then the OBP firmware isn't detecting it as a valid PCI card. Occasionally it will show up as a generic "display" device. Double check the output of "prtconf -pv" ... You can also search for 3d3d , which is likely nearby. Unfortunately, if the firmware really isn't seeing it, even when you install the correct drivers, it won't be able to match up and load a device driver. Sounds like a OBP / card incompatibility. You could try different slots, might help ... Is the card really good ? Does it work in another system ? >|Is the card defective if can't see it in the outputs of the two >|commands or is it just an issue with the Ultra5? > >Did you add the XVR-500 drivers and boot -r? > >|Has anyone managed to build a recent X.org or XFree86 on >|Solaris10/Sparc to get hw-accelerated OGL with a XVR-100 >|(the XVR-100 works with the U5)? > >To get hw accelerated OGL with XFree86/X.org you'ld also have to port >DRI to the Solaris kernel, which is not a small task. > Don't forget a Kernel DRM module to go with that specific card....  You can try running the XVR-100 in 8-bit mode, which is much faster. (not fake8 mode) Also, get the latest drivers, and you may see some perfomance increas |
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