[SunRescue] Off-Topic Sparc Question

CEO Dan Jameyson jameyson at iwosys.net
Sun Aug 8 03:38:11 CDT 1999


Christopher Drelich wrote:
> 
> I was wondering if anyone could tell me of any third party PCI video cards
> that work in Ultra5/Solaris7/CDE/OpenWindows.  Its neccessary to have
> 12+MB of Video Ram.  Sun mentions the availabilty of third party cards,
> but never mentions which are supported. Any help wuld be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 

Hey, I'd love to get upgrade the video of my ultra5 as well. It's a
shame to not run a super-high res on this 19'' monitor. So I'm looking
to do the same thing - anything with opengl as well?

>From what I know, the onboard chipset is pretty much an ATI RAGE3d PRO.
How does one go about disabling the onboard system and dropping in a new
card?

Thanks!
Dan Jameyson






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