[rescue] Re: [SunHELP] Solaris 9, First thoughts

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 13:42, Harri Haataja wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 02:56:02PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:00:20PM -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > > While I'm thinking of it, anybody know if one could get a nvidia
> > > GeForce2MX PCI card, put it into a Solaris SPARC machine, install
> > > XFree86, and have it work?  Anybody want to try (my only "modern" SPARC
> > > is an Ultra1)?  
> > 
> > Nope; no OpenBoot support, so the system wont "see" it.
> > 
> > That would kick ass though.  I'd love to be able to pop a GF2MX in
> > my PCI-based SPARCs.
> 
> Given the bitchy nature of nVidia, would probably be useless (at least
> you'd waste 90% of the chip). Nice Ati ro Matrox maybe..

Yeah, but ATI and Matrox don't (didn't) have any of their newer cards
available in PCI versions last I checked.
	Greg

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