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#1 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 02:04 PM

Pending the imminent arrival of my new Blade 1500 I was wondering
if I can add an XVR-100 video card to it? This would be along with
the already installed XVR-600. If not I can always toss it back in
my handy dandy Blade 150.
Ok, bonus question, assuming I *can* do the above, any likelihood I
can have 3 displays driven off this with Solaris 10 FCS? One large
desktop? 3 separate desktops? 2 one one, 1 on another? Will it make
ice cream?

Thanks much,
Doug

"You can't change a man. Unless he's wearing diapers." Mary Bennett

#2 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 02:04 PM

dougm wrote:
> Pending the imminent arrival of my new Blade 1500 I was wondering
> if I can add an XVR-100 video card to it? This would be along with
> the already installed XVR-600.

It will work fine.

> If not I can always toss it back in
> my handy dandy Blade 150.
> Ok, bonus question, assuming I *can* do the above, any likelihood
I
> can have 3 displays driven off this with Solaris 10 FCS?

Yes

> One large
> desktop?

No

>3 separate desktops?

Yes

>2 one one, 1 on another?

You can probably have two monitors on the xvr-100 which can probably
work in xinerama, so making one large 2D screen.

You probably cannot mix the xvr-600 with the xvr-100 in xinerama mode,
but if you can it will only be in 2D as that is all the xvr-100 can do.

> Will it make
> ice cream?

Not sure, if its the Red version of the sb1500 then no, I have not got
a silver one to comment on what cool features it may have

> Thanks much,
> Doug
>
> "You can't change a man. Unless he's wearing diapers." Mary Bennett

#3 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 02:04 PM

In article <prAbe.906$6z3.563@newssvr33.news.prodigy.com>, dougm <dougm1964'@t'hotmail.com> wrote:
>Pending the imminent arrival of my new Blade 1500 I was wondering
>if I can add an XVR-100 video card to it? This would be along with
>the already installed XVR-600. If not I can always toss it back in
>my handy dandy Blade 150.

Wil work in either.

> Ok, bonus question, assuming I *can* do the above, any likelihood I
>can have 3 displays driven off this with Solaris 10 FCS? One large
>desktop? 3 separate desktops? 2 one one, 1 on another?

You can't do three, Xinerama won't work unless the cards
are identical (at least the same device driver), and it's
all cards or nothing for Xinerama.

XVR-100 supports doublewide mode, so you can combine those
two displays (in hardware).
Turn on -doublewide using fbconfig.
Put the device ONCE ( probably /dev/fbs/pfb0 ) in Xservers.
Don't turn Xinerama on.

BTW, XVR-100 doesn't accelerate 3D (it's SW),
so combining that with a 3D card would just
slow 3D down (even if 2D might work).

Will it make
>ice cream?

>Thanks much,
>Doug
>
>"You can't change a man. Unless he's wearing diapers." Mary Bennett

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