From: Robert Schiele (schiele-ml_at_web.de)
Date: Thu Aug 08 2002 - 20:37:13 CEST
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 20:37:13 +0200 From: Robert Schiele <schiele-ml@web.de> Message-ID: <20020808183713.GB27206@schiele.local> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Question about SuSE 7.3 Sparc
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 05:44:32PM +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just installed SuSE 7.3 SPARC on what appears to be an unnamed Sun
> Clone (well, all the chips inside are Sun's, processor is Ultra Sparc 248
> Mhz, and 512MB RAM - not bad).
>
> Installation went smooth, with 1 problem: sax2 simply refuse to configure my
> video card which is nothing more then a simple ATI Rage Pro card...
>
> from the lspci:
>
> 00:02.0 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc 264VT [Mach64 VT] (rev 40)
> Subsystem: LSI Logic Corp. / Symbios Logic Inc. (formerly NCR):
> Unknown device 0000
> Flags: stepping, medium devsel, IRQ 6801664
> Memory at 000001ff81000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
> I/O ports at 2010500 [size=256]
> Expansion ROM at 0000000080010000 [disabled] [size=64K]
>
> To me it looks like an ATI Rage pro card. Does anyone knows a way to configure
> this card with XFree? anyone got a working copy of the config file maybe? :)
We have some Ultra5 boxes here which also have a Mach64, but a
different model. You can try my config file anyway. Hope you have luck
with it.
>
> I would like also to ask please:
>
> 1. Is there somewhere an XFree 4.2 RPMS for SuSE 7.3/Sparc?
Didn't see some yet.
> 2. How can I become a beta tester for SuSE 8.0 (or is it 8.1 now?) for the
> Sparc version?
Previously, betas for Sparc were announced on this list.
> 3. Is there a place (something like redhat's "rawhide", or like Mandrake's
> "cooker") where I can find the latest (although unsupported) RPMS for SuSE
> 7.3 - like gcc-3.1, qt-3.0.5 etc?
KDE stuff can be found on the SuSE server and it's mirrors. Other
stuff I don't know. I am just building new RPMs on my own when I need
later software.
Robert
-- Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2517 Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@uni-mannheim.de
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