torgel70@netscape.net writes in comp.sys.sun.hardware:
|I bought a XVR-500 really cheap to get a bit hardware-accelerated
|OpenGL in my Ultra5 (440MHz, 512MB, 18GB SCSI-HDD, latest OBP).
|
|I know the card isn't supported in the Ultra5, but
|shouldn't I get the card listed by "show-displays" or "prtconf"?
|
|Is the card defective if can't see it in the outputs of the two
|commands or is it just an issue with the Ultra5?

Did you add the XVR-500 drivers and boot -r?

|Has anyone managed to build a recent X.org or XFree86 on
|Solaris10/Sparc to get hw-accelerated OGL with a XVR-100
|(the XVR-100 works with the U5)?

To get hw accelerated OGL with XFree86/X.org you'ld also have to port
DRI to the Solaris kernel, which is not a small task.

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