[rescue] Re: [SunHELP] Solaris 9, First thoughts

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 12:56, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:00:20PM -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > While I'm thinking of it, anybody know if one could get a nvidia
> > GeForce2MX PCI card, put it into a Solaris SPARC machine, install
> > XFree86, and have it work?  Anybody want to try (my only "modern" SPARC
> > is an Ultra1)?  
> > 	Greg
> 
> Nope; no OpenBoot support, so the system wont "see" it.

But this just means that you couldn't use it as the system console,
right?  Hmm, keep a nice plasma serial terminal around, and try for some
decent (though not great) 2d performance.  I dunno, maybe I'm dreaming
again.
	Greg

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