[Sunhelp] another SunPCI question

[James Lockwood]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Bill Bradford wrote:

> I've given up on my quest to build another PC here, and have a bid in on
> a SunPCI card. 
> 
> One question - what framebuffer is built into the card, to use with an
> external VGA monitor?  I understand that you can either use/share the
> Sun hosts's frambuffer/monitor, but you can also just plug another
> monitor directly into the card.  If you do so, what are the capabilities
> of the "onboard" framebuffer?  I cant find this info on the Sun
> web site.

It can use up to 4MB of the card memory for framebuffer memory, I believe.
Runs fine at 1024x768 24bpp for me.

I recommend downloading the documentation from docs.sun.com and browsing
through it, it should have detailed spec info.

-James [anyone want to trade me a Sunray for a loaded SS20?]