Solved: Re: trouble installing to sun blade 1500

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 01:56:14PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 01:36:34PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 04:57:13PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > If I can get nowhere with this card, any advice for
> > > > a card I could buy for Sun Blade 1500 (red or silver)?
> > > 
> > > Sun PGX64 would be a good choice as they even allow to
> > > use accelerated X with decent resolution (which is
> > > unlikely to ever work with most of the XVR cards as
> > > Sun didn't open source their drivers nor release the
> > > necessary documentation).
> > 
> > Marius, thank you. I bought on of those (15 pounds, ebay)
> > and it seems to work ok in the text mode.
> > I haven't yet built X successfully, still some errors
> > in devel/gobject-intospection
> 
> You'll likely want to use a more lightweight window manager 
> than GNOME like for example windowmaker on a Blade 1500
> anyway.

sure. I don't use gnome anyway. But gobject-introspection is
required by hal, which, in turn, is necessary for X.
I typically just run mwm.

> > Could you also recommend a wireless network card
> > for blade 1500?
> 
> Some time ago ath(4) was fixed to work on sparc64 but I'm
> not aware of its current state.

thank you

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