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

[Eric Dittman]

> > > > 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)?  
> > > 
> > > Nope; no OpenBoot support, so the system wont "see" it.
> > > 
> > > That would kick ass though.  I'd love to be able to pop a GF2MX in
> > > my PCI-based SPARCs.
> > 
> > Given the bitchy nature of nVidia, would probably be useless (at least
> > you'd waste 90% of the chip). Nice Ati ro Matrox maybe..
> 
> Yeah, but ATI and Matrox don't (didn't) have any of their newer cards
> available in PCI versions last I checked.

I've seen the ATI Radeon in a PCI version.  I was using a GeForce 2
card in my main system and a GeForce2Go card in my laptop and got
tired of having to do extra stuff just to work around the nVidia
close-sources drives when I built or updated a kernel.  I replace
the GeForce 2 with an ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon I had sitting around
and put the original ATI Mobility M4 in my laptop.  No problems
now.  As a side benefit, the AIW Radeon is sharper than the GeForce 2
at 1600x1200.
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