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PostPosted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 12:56 pm    Post subject: Sun Ultra5 Graphics Options Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 8:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 4:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 7:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Its a rage, not a radeon :)
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 4:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

bazik wrote:
Its a rage, not a radeon :)


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if I stick a PCI graphics card, say a radeon 7000, that has linux drivers is it feasible to make it go ?


:twisted:

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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