[rescue] Best video upgrade for Ultra 5?

[Michael-John Turner]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 07:23:37PM +0200, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> Convert it to a U10 with an old PeeCee enclosure and use a UPA
> framebuffer? I suspect ATI Rage II / Pro is all NetBSD/sparc64 supports
> on PCI. You already have an ATI chip on the mainboard. Look at the
> NetBSD dmesg. There are the early "Darwin" boards with:
> machfb0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0: ATI Technologies 3D Rage I/II (rev. 0x9a)
> and 2 MB VRAM and the later "Darwin+" boards with:
> machfb0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0: ATI Technologies 3D Rage Pro (rev. 0x5c)
> and 4 MB VRAM. I think the later can do 1280x1024x24.

Hmm... Was thinking of putting it in a PC case, but that seems like
sacrilege :) I was thinking of getting an XVR-7000 (the Radeon 7*-based
card), but I'm not sure if that's the best option (or even if its supported
by NetBSD/sparc64 - I'm sure there is NetBSD/i386 support, but that doesn't
mean anything).

FWIW, my U5 has:
machfb0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0: ATI Technologies 3D Rage Pro (rev. 0x5c)                                                                                             

> You can also use X11 with NetBSD on the U2. At least it runs on my U1e
> with a UPA Creator 1280x1024x24.

Yep, going to try it on my U1E/Creator3Dv2 shortly - got 3.0_BETA with X
and all the necessary pullups built, just haven't gotten around to
installing :)

-mj
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