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#1 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 02:33 PM

hello,
anybody knows if it possible to add a sun elite 3d lite on sun ultyra
20? i tried it, but when solaris start, screen become strange (colored
checker board...)
do i have to deactivate ati on-board graphic card into DCA before
booting solaris?

thanks for help,

#2 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 02:33 PM

In article <4344b406$0$4337$626a54ce@news.free.fr>, jdh13 <jdh13@free.fr> wrote:
>hello,
>anybody knows if it possible to add a sun elite 3d lite on sun ultyra
>20? i tried it, but when solaris start, screen become strange (colored
>checker board...)

Sounds like the card isn't being initialized.
Do you have all the packages/drivers installed ?
Have you setup the Xservers file for two devices ?

You should be able to run two-headed.
(but without Xinerama since the cards are not identical)

>do i have to deactivate ati on-board graphic card into DCA before
>booting solaris?
>
>thanks for help,

#3 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 02:33 PM

x@x.x wrote:
> In article <4344b406$0$4337$626a54ce@news.free.fr>, jdh13 <jdh13@free.fr> wrote:
>
>>hello,
>>anybody knows if it possible to add a sun elite 3d lite on sun ultyra
>>20? i tried it, but when solaris start, screen become strange (colored
>>checker board...)
>
>
> Sounds like the card isn't being initialized.
> Do you have all the packages/drivers installed ?
> Have you setup the Xservers file for two devices ?
>
thanks for your reply. Before installing elite3d, i'm using on-board ati
xl, with sun xorg. You suggest i should use Xsun instead of Xorg? but
i'm not sure there are such drivers for solaris x86?

> You should be able to run two-headed.
> (but without Xinerama since the cards are not identical)
>
>
>
>>do i have to deactivate ati on-board graphic card into DCA before
>>booting solaris?
>>
>>thanks for help,

#4 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 02:33 PM

In article <43451fc5$0$31838$636a15ce@news.free.fr>, jdh13 <jdh13@free.fr> wrote:
>x@x.x wrote:
>> In article <4344b406$0$4337$626a54ce@news.free.fr>, jdh13 <jdh13@free.fr>
> wrote:
>>
>>>hello,
>>>anybody knows if it possible to add a sun elite 3d lite on sun ultyra
>>>20? i tried it, but when solaris start, screen become strange (colored
>>>checker board...)
>>
>>
>> Sounds like the card isn't being initialized.
>> Do you have all the packages/drivers installed ?
>> Have you setup the Xservers file for two devices ?
>>
>thanks for your reply. Before installing elite3d, i'm using on-board ati
>xl, with sun xorg. You suggest i should use Xsun instead of Xorg? but
>i'm not sure there are such drivers for solaris x86?
>

Ah, pardon my confusion with an Ultra not being a Sparc ...

That card won't do much until microcode gets loaded.
So you'd need a device driver and a microcode daemon
just to get it to start talking (alive card with a black screen).
Then you'd need an Xorg or Xsun DDX module to draw.
Unless all this has been ported to X86, it won't do anything.
(you might have a shot if they'd release the source
under OpenSolaris ...)

>
>> You should be able to run two-headed.
>> (but without Xinerama since the cards are not identical)
>>
>>
>>
>>>do i have to deactivate ati on-board graphic card into DCA before
>>>booting solaris?
>>>
>>>thanks for help,

#5 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 02:33 PM

jdh13 <jdh13@free.fr> writes in comp.sys.sun.hardware:
|anybody knows if it possible to add a sun elite 3d lite on sun ultyra
|20?

There's no Solaris x86 drivers available for that card. You'ld be
better off with a standard PC graphics card. (nVidia if you want
accelarated OpenGL support.)

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