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

Harri Haataja harri.haataja at cs.Helsinki.FI
Sun Jan 20 15:42:22 CST 2002


On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 02:56:02PM -0600, 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)?  
> 
> 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..

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