[rescue] Re: help with sbus card

[Chris Powell]

On Saturday, 15 September, 2001 06:28, nigel burridge wrote:

>  help i have found a unusual sbus card (video 13w3) it has the folowing
> chips bt463(ramdac) and vitec-dpd(video cpu) and has 32 memory chips (nec
> d482234g5) underside has fab 20vx0010-1(model?) and visual information
> technologies inc.(maker?)

Sounds like a Vitec RasterFlex card. Several variants of this card
around, explained in a very good support page:

http://www.visicom.com/support/vigra/faq/rasterfaq.shtml

If the card is a later -32 or -HR version then you can get drivers
(including SunOS 5.x) from this page (not sure about others).

Rasterflex cards appear on ebay quite regularly and usually go for
about $50. One up at the moment without any bids (one card went last
week with 26 bids for $54):

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1275918416

I've got a RasterFlex-HR card which will do up to 1280x1024 24-bit,
but I've not got around to installing the drivers yet so I can't
say how quick (or not) it is....


Chris.