Does an XVR-100 card work on Solaris/Intel ?
Or is this Sparc only ?

* llothar:

> Does an XVR-100 card work on Solaris/Intel ?
> Or is this Sparc only ?

IIRC the XVR-100 is basically an ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition. This card
does work on a PC but not as primary adapter because it lacks a gfx
card BIOS for initializing the card at bootup (the card has an
OpenFirmwar-ROM). Thus you either need also another card as primary card
or you flash the card with the ATI PC BIOS for this card. But then,
better sell the XVR-100 and get a cheap PC gfx card (Radeon 7000s go for
a few bucks today)...

Benjamin

> IIRC the XVR-100 is basically an ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition. This card
> does work on a PC but not as primary adapter because it lacks a gfx
> card BIOS for initializing the card at bootup (the card has an
> OpenFirmwar-ROM). Thus you either need also another card as primary card

I'm asking because i want to setup a three monitor system without doing
a manual configuration. So i want something that is automatically setup
by the installation script, without any strange user invention. And
digging into undocumented 20 year old X11 config files is this for me.

I just need an X11R6 system for this, let it be solaris or linux or
freebsd or whatever.

llothar wrote:
> > IIRC the XVR-100 is basically an ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition. This card
> > does work on a PC but not as primary adapter because it lacks a gfx
> > card BIOS for initializing the card at bootup (the card has an
> > OpenFirmwar-ROM). Thus you either need also another card as primary card
>
> I'm asking because i want to setup a three monitor system without doing
> a manual configuration. So i want something that is automatically setup
> by the installation script, without any strange user invention. And
> digging into undocumented 20 year old X11 config files is this for me.
>
> I just need an X11R6 system for this, let it be solaris or linux or
> freebsd or whatever.

Depending on the performance you need, you could get some s/h Sun Rays,
you can get these to behave in a multi-monitor fashion, and Sun Ray
1(g) systems will be dirt cheap on eBay now that some new/nicer Sun
Rays have been released.