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PostPosted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 12:52 pm    Post subject: Whats the status of XVR-whatever in Linux? Reply with quote

Most of the XVR cards are rebranded ATI Radeon based, so I suspect that support technically should not be too odd/difficult ... however, has anyone had luck making any of these go?


I've got a SB1500 to play with (at work) with an XVR-100 .. they'd really prefer gentoo on it rather than Solaris... thoughts?
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 1:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, the SB1500 doesn't work properly under Linux anyway... Neither do any of the XVR- cards, and since Sun won't give us the docs we couldn't make them work either.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 3:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Have an XVR-100 on a SF V210. At least radeonfb is working on
2.4.27 and 2.6.9rc3 (with a couple of artifacts on using
the mouse/gpm). Booting to the framebuffer does switch away
to the standard white on black Linux textmode fb console with two
tux logos! This is much much faster than then non-fb console.

X certainly doesn't work with the ati driver; have yet to try
framebuffer - unless someone tells me here that that is
surely not gonna work.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 3:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

rchan00 wrote:
X certainly doesn't work with the ati driver; have yet to try
framebuffer - unless someone tells me here that that is
surely not gonna work.

I'd imagine that performance would be pretty painful if it did work... Worth a try, anyway, unless you'd prefer to make a real x driver work :lol:
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 7:22 pm    Post subject: XVR-100 working with FBDEV... Reply with quote

I was able to get the XVR-100 working with FBDEV. Slow and painful but better than nothing.

Here is the link:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-227308-highlight-xvr100.html

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

rkrenzis, rchan00: Did either of you try the Xorg ati driver with a 2.4 kernel?
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