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GenTimJS
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 Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 12:56 pm Post subject: Sun Ultra5 Graphics Options |
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Hey all.
I just got a Sun Ultra5 360Mhz 256mb ram for $60US (yes, im serious ... )
im going to be throwing a cdrom and hd in it soon, but had a question I figured id toss out.
Im planning a dualboot solaris9/gentoo environment.
Now, its the crappy kind if ultra5 with the 8bit on board frame buffer.
if I stick a PCI graphics card, say a radeon 7000, that has linux drivers is it feasible to make it go ?
How about in that other forbidden (solaris) OS?
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| Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Normally Ultra5s come with an ATI Mach64 chipset. These are pretty decent, and can run 32 and 16bit color no problem. No 3D capability, but as a workstation the card is adequate. |
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stonent
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I wonder if you jumper the onboard video to disabled and enable the radeon framebuffer in the kernel if it will display something after the kernel loads?
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bazik
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Its a rage, not a radeon 
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stonent
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| bazik wrote: | | Its a rage, not a radeon |
| Quote: | | if I stick a PCI graphics card, say a radeon 7000, that has linux drivers is it feasible to make it go ? |
That's what I was referring to. I know that you can set up an old 3DFx voodoo2 card as a framebuffer so it is feasable that you might be able to get this to work.
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