[SunRescue] RE: RDI Britelite WAS (Weitek PowerUp Question ) (Mike Hebel)

[MikeNicewongertwmaster at twmaster.com]

Solaris would be *painful* on that box even with a PowerUp, I was thinking
more like OpenBSD which supports the framebuffer.

Mike N
----- Original Message -----
From: "Earl Baugh" <earl at baugh.org>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 12:06 AM
Subject: [SunRescue] RE: RDI Britelite WAS (Weitek PowerUp Question ) (Mike
Hebel)


> Just a small warning here (dunno if this will be a bit problem or
> not) but the LCD display on the Britelite isn't quite stock Sun
> stuff. I bought 3 of them for a research project I was working on...and
> I suspect they're gathering dust in the basement of the Pentagon right
> now...anyway, while it was a stock IPX (I opened up one and compare the
> boards...look darn near stock...) the LCD video driver wasn't "really"
> compatible with the stock Solaris one....needed the magic RDI disk.
> I could get the 13w3 connector to work with an external monitor with
Solaris
> 2.5, but without those drivers, I couldn't get the LCD to work.
>
> Once the drivers were loaded, It showed up as a CG3 or 6 (don't remember
> which) but it wasn't stock.  Also melted down two of them (drive
> and LCD) by having the display closed and using an external monitor
> and KBD.  Ended up replacing both the drive and display, and then for
> the one that went into the field a lot, we disconnected the LCD from the
> power to keep it cooler.  (The other, when we took it in the field,
> we left open as a "nice white" desk lamp...and used an external monitor.
> We couldn't get dual X displays to work with the LCD either....but we
> didn't spend a LONG time working on that...but on the SS10's it was a
> snap..)
>
> Earl
>
>
> >From: "Mike Nicewonger" <twmaster at twmaster.com>
> >To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> >Subject: Re: [SunRescue] RDI Britelite WAS (Weitek PowerUp Question )
> >Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:16:33 -0400
> >charset="iso-8859-1"
> >Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> >
> >The Britelite is a, um, 'luggable' IPX workstation. It is a self
contained
> >portable computer, very much like a laptop but a bit bigger and heavier,
it
> >has a flip up LCD display otherwise it is a stock IPX, takes low profile
> >SIMMs but other than that and the frambuffer it is normal. I'll see if I
can
> >dredge up some photo's later this week. The one I have needs a little
work.
> >NVRAM, bigger HD, more RAM. Maybe even that PowerUp. Of course I will put
> >either Open BSD or Net BSD on the box.
> >
> >Mike N
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