[SunRescue] SS10 SX board...curious

[GregoryLeblancGLeblanc at cu-portland.edu]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earl Baugh [mailto:earl at baugh.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 7:10 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunRescue] SS10 SX board...curious
> 
> I'm curious.  I was looking over a Sun Framebuffer FAQ (managed
> by a Sun engineer), and it mentioned an "add on board" for a 
> SS10 which 
> is effectively the SX 24 bit video capabilities even when you don't 
> have the SS10 SX motherboard (or perhaps I'm interpreting it to my 
> advantage 8-) ) They even mentioned it being something you could add 
> to a SS20 Has anybody ever seen this beast?  Anybody know how well it 
> works/worked?  I'm stuck here with 8 bit graphics on my SS10's cause 
> they never made anything that I though I'd like...had access 
> to a few of
> the different ones via work, but they always seemed so slow 
> compared to 
> the 8bit ones I never really botherd looking at them.  Now, I actually
> could use it for some of the video stuff I have, but it seems 
> that aside 
> from the SX there really isn't any 24bit card that Solaris 
> supports on 
> a SBUS system (unless you've got an Ultra2 with UPA).
> 
> So, can these boards be had?  Or even an SS10SX motherboard?

There are some SBUS FBs that can do 24-bit, but I don't think they're very
fast, or supported in Solaris after 2.5.1.  The SS10SX/SS20 can take a
special type of SIMM to enable the on-board video connector, but that's
about it for 32-bit SPARCs with 24-bit graphics.  Sucks, but that's the way
things work sometimes.  And after seeing what SGI can do with an 8-bit FB, I
won't be bothering with X on any of my SPARCs.  IRIX is just too good.
	Grego