[SunRescue] RE: RDI Britelite WAS (Weitek PowerUp Question ) (Mike Hebel)

[EarlBaughearl at baugh.org]

Just a small warning here (dunno if this will be a bit problem or
not) but the LCD display on the Britelite isn't quite stock Sun
stuff. I bought 3 of them for a research project I was working on...and 
I suspect they're gathering dust in the basement of the Pentagon right 
now...anyway, while it was a stock IPX (I opened up one and compare the 
boards...look darn near stock...) the LCD video driver wasn't "really" 
compatible with the stock Solaris one....needed the magic RDI disk.  
I could get the 13w3 connector to work with an external monitor with Solaris 
2.5, but without those drivers, I couldn't get the LCD to work.  

Once the drivers were loaded, It showed up as a CG3 or 6 (don't remember
which) but it wasn't stock.  Also melted down two of them (drive
and LCD) by having the display closed and using an external monitor
and KBD.  Ended up replacing both the drive and display, and then for 
the one that went into the field a lot, we disconnected the LCD from the 
power to keep it cooler.  (The other, when we took it in the field,
we left open as a "nice white" desk lamp...and used an external monitor.
We couldn't get dual X displays to work with the LCD either....but we
didn't spend a LONG time working on that...but on the SS10's it was a
snap..)

Earl


>From: "Mike Nicewonger" <twmaster at twmaster.com>
>To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [SunRescue] RDI Britelite WAS (Weitek PowerUp Question )
>Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:16:33 -0400
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>Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
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>The Britelite is a, um, 'luggable' IPX workstation. It is a self contained
>portable computer, very much like a laptop but a bit bigger and heavier, it
>has a flip up LCD display otherwise it is a stock IPX, takes low profile
>SIMMs but other than that and the frambuffer it is normal. I'll see if I can
>dredge up some photo's later this week. The one I have needs a little work.
>NVRAM, bigger HD, more RAM. Maybe even that PowerUp. Of course I will put
>either Open BSD or Net BSD on the box.
>
>Mike N