Hi, I've succesfully installed Ubuntu server for SPARC on my Blade 2000 with a xvr-500 graphics card but I still haven't been able to configure Xorg. The sunffb driver does not respond ("device not found" error) and I haven't found any useful information for this video card.
Has anyone had success configuring it? If so, which driver should I use?
Thanks in advance,
Lucas 'Basurero' Vieites
Hello Lucas,
you wrote (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=334007)
I think I'll be asking for advice on the sun forums, maybe someone over there has more luck or experience.
The majority is using Solaris on SPARC. I think you have to further investigate on the several Linux on SPARC newslist.
Michael
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When will the deficencies/bugs in the Forums software be fixed ?
Yes indeed,
I decided to ask here because of the famous agreement between Sun and Canonical (http://www.ubuntu.com/sun) to offer support for Ubuntu on Sun hardware.
I know that the Blade 2000 is not among the "chosen", but I thought it was worth a try.
For now I will keep on investigating, or maybe look for a compatible graphics card ;-)
Cheers,
Lucas "Basurero"
Hi!
I once put up the complete Gnome 2.14 on a UltraSparc60.
These days I'm more practical of Gentoo Linux.
I'd say you're lacking the sunffb driver. Try to download Sun drivers.
The ordinary way to put up a desktop is to use the ubuntu-desktop package by using either apt-get or aptitude.
