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tobiasm
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 Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 8:44 pm Post subject: Elite3D - where do I get sunffb from ? [SOLVED] |
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Hello!
I am trying to install a gentoo on my Sparc Ultra60 and everything works fine except Xorg because I can't find a driver for my Elite3D. I read in several threads that I should use the sunffb-driver. But where do I get this driver from? It is not in the portage-tree as far as I know and so I searched with google but the only download I found was an outdated version of that driver! I also searched in this forum and did not find any link, too.
Please help me!
Tobias
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After a re-emerge of xorg-x11 the X-server worked fine.
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Gecklord
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| Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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first you have to
then change xorg-driver to sunffb
get afb.ucode from Sun
cp afb.ucode to /usr/lib and
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p.s. give me your email adress & I'll send you the afb.ucode file! |
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sdunne
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| Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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To be pedantic 
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rc-update add afb-init default
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should really be
| Code: | rc-update add afbinit default
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There's no hyphen in the init.d script, unlike the package name. Confusing, to be sure.
For the record There's a few versions of 105363 on Sunsolve with 105363-38 being the latest, from 13-11-2001. Loading the contained afb.ucode with afbinit displays version 1.3.10 |
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labrador
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 2:37 am Post subject: Should this be a sticky topic for Sparc? |
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I think we see this question asked every 2 weeks here. It is too difficult
to locate the answer by search or something. I'd think this qualifies
for a sticky note, or else add a note on Elite 3D cards in the Xorg
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DannyZeng
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:07 am Post subject: |
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| Gecklord wrote: | first you have to
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now the name is fixed now, and I have to run
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Ferris
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 11:42 am Post subject: |
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There are instructions including a URL for the Sun patch site on which afb.ucode (the Elite acceleration microcode) resides in the third paragraph of text at http://dev.gentoo.org/~fmccor/. I thought there was a pointer to this in one of the sticky xorg-x11 posts, but maybe not. I've also place this information in the main (second) sticky xorg-x11 post in this forum. It's in the first post at topic 174481.
Regards,
Ferris |
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