[Aurora-sparc-user] GUI/Gnome on an e450 - card options

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 13:06 -0400, Alex Getty (Xenolithic) wrote:
> So I installed my 2GB of RAM into my e450 with ease and am now up to
> 2.5GB.  I think I may give up on the Raptor (Sun PGX32) because the
> support is shoddy at best.  My question is, what the heck else will
> work?  I'd really like to get GNOME working on my e450 because it will
> be used as a show piece at our hacking competition at RIT this year
> (It's going to simulate an online banking system) and I'd like to be
> at the machine during the competition.
>  
> If there's an RPM or something that will fix the support for the
> raptor, let me know.  I know they fixed it way back when with SuSe 7.3
> but it works and then promptly crashes.  I'd like to be able to run a
> full GUI on my machine.  I'm no linux expert, but I'm versed and can
> do what I'm told :)
>  
> but as of now I have an Elite3D card I'll try tonight.  Any other card
> suggestions (under $100 preferably) that play well with the SPARC
> arch?

The complication is finding a card that works well at the PROM. Linux
doesn't need the card to work at the prom, but its always useful to have
video access at that point.

ATI cards usually work pretty well under SPARC, but just about any
common PCI video card should go into an e450 and work once Linux boots.

Also, if you can send me some X failure logs from the Raptor, I can see
if anything obvious stands out. 

~spot
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