[SunRescue] What am I, and how did I get here ( CG12 on a SS2)

[Stou Sandalski]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Maarten Deen
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 10:50
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: RE: [SunRescue] What am I, and how did I get here ( CG12 on a
> SS2)
>
>
> Stou Sandalski:
>
> > > cgtwelve == gs, not supported under 2.5 or later.
> > >
> > > Maarten
> > >
> >
> > Ahh yes 24bit graphics but slow, by not supported under 2.5 or
> latter does
> > it mean a hardware version? Is it worth buying another frame
> buffer for this
>
> Ah, sorry, not very descriptive... Solaris 2.5 that is.
>
> > thing (SS2), since neither NetBSD or OpenBSD support this
> thing, and I doubt
> > I will have the coding skills to write my own driver for it.
> What version
> > of Solaris would run on this I doubt 8 will hehe, any other OSes?
>
> Well you'd need Solaris 2.4 for it, and as I've heard, any
> Solaris before 2.5 is
> a dog. Especially on a sun4c machine.
> SunOS 4 would be a good OS for such machine I'd imagine.

When I first got this system, it was running SunOS 4.1.1, but all the X
stuff was missing because they (UCSB) were NFSing it from somewhere

>
> Depending on the work you do, older suns are very capable. Don't do any
> rendering though... ;-)

Yea or RC5 cracking heheh 33Kkeys/sec


I am actualy going to buy a CG6 (24$) and ***attempt*** to write a driver
for the cg12; where would one go to find information on this device? I
checked the sunhelp site and then went into docs.sun.com but I couldn't
locate anything other then administrative guides.



Stou