[rescue] KVM and Sunfire 280r

Joshua D. Boyd jdboyd at celestrion.celestrion.net
Sat Apr 26 20:17:32 CDT 2003


On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 08:03:20PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

<snip e10k stuff>

> > What happens if you stick a USB card and framebuffer in it?
> 
> The gods of computing strike you with lightning even before the BOFHs of
> the world have your coordinates entered into their tactical nuke
> systems.

Numerous people have put framebuffers and consoles on Cray's before.
Reportedly, even Apple has done it.  So why not the E10k?  Presumably
there is no other way ot get graphics out of the system than by a card
on the system bus, and if you have a fb in the machine, why not a
keyboard and mouse?


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