[Aurora-sparc-user] Expert 3D Lite

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 20:43 -0400, Jack Exley wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I currently have Aurora 2.99 installed on my Sun Blade 150.  Works 
> great, I love it.  I'm always looking to max out my hardware 
> configurations, so I'm upgrading to 2GB of RAM and a SUN Expert 3D lite 
> video card, also known as an XVR-500, I think.  I wanted to see if 
> anyone has had any luck getting this card to work.  From my google 
> searches it's not looking to good for me, but I was hoping that maybe 
> someone hacked through it and got a working xorg.conf file.  I saw a 
> post that the latest linux kernel 2.6.22 has an embedded XVR-500 
> driver.  This card has the wildcat chipset.
> 
> /etc/release file
> Aurora SPARC Linux release 2.99 (Angel)
> 
> uname -a
> Linux jackinbox 2.6.21-1.3149.al3.8 #1 Sat May 26 00:31:16 EDT 2007 
> sparc64 sparc64 sparc64 GNU/Linux

There's a framebuffer driver for the XVR-500 in that kernel, but afaik,
there is no working X driver.

~spot