[SunRescue] Urgently Needed: PGX32 video card

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Katz [mailto:jon at jonworld.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 11:34 AM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Urgently Needed: PGX32 video card
> 
> 
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> :Anybody have a PGX32 video card (PCI) for a PCI-bus Ultra 
> that they'll
> :let go for under $200?  If so, let me know - I need to get it in my
> [...]
> 
> I thought there were patches for Solaris 7 which allowed for 24bit
> graphics off the ATI card on the motherboard?
> 
> http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fpatches%2F105
> 362&zone_32=Ultra%205%2024bit
> 
> Talks about 'm64' graphics which are 24bit?
> 
> Maybe I'm confused *sigh*

The older Ultra5 and 10 machines had 8-bit ATI chipsets.  The newer
Ultra5/10 machines have 24-bit capable graphics onboard.  My understanding
was that this was a hardware limitation, and not a software problem.
	Greg