I bought a sun ultra 5 360 mhz a couple of weeks ago and the best video i can
get so far is 8 bit graphics. this ultra had never been used as i peeled
the stickers off the power supply area in back and had a setup screen for
Sol7 when i booted the box.

in my searching the net i find differing opinions as to whether or not any
ultra5s came with 24 bit graphics. the sun ultra5 user manual i found,
said this:

Note: Systems with PGX24 graphics have "PGX24" or "Series 3" printed on
the serial number label this is affixed to the front bezel.

I have "Series 3" on this label. But so far I can only get 8 bit depth in
Solaris 9. (see xdpyinfo below) Chipset onboard has "ATI 3d Rage Pro Turbo
PCI". Is there a configuration setting i am missing in Sol9?

On a sun website there is also a reference as to not being able to use 8
and 24 simultaneously with the PGX24. I only need 24.

Would it be best to just pick up a sun raptor pci card? 20 bucks on ebay,
new

Also, this being a 360mhz 256k cache cpu, would i realize a decent
performance increase with a 333mhz cpu with 2M cache. If i am reading the
documentation right I can swap the cpus.

This box is mostly email, data storage and websurfing and nothing
demanding great processing power.



Here is output of xdpyinfo:

# ./xdpyinfo
name of display: :0.0
version number: 11.0
vendor string: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
vendor release number: 6610
maximum request size: 262140 bytes
motion buffer size: 256
bitmap unit, bit order, padding: 32, MSBFirst, 32
image byte order: MSBFirst
number of supported pixmap formats: 3
supported pixmap formats:
depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
depth 8, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
depth 24, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
keycode range: minimum 8, maximum 132
focus: window 0xb00685, revert to Parent
number of extensions: 31
AccessX
Adobe-DPS-Extension
DOUBLE-BUFFER
DPMS
DPSExtension
Extended-Visual-Information
FBPM
GLX
LBX
MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
MIT-SHM
MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
Multi-Buffering
RECORD
SECURITY
SHAPE
ST
SUN_ALLPLANES
SUN_DGA
SUN_OVL
SUN_SME
SYNC
SolarisIA
TOG-CUP
X-Resource
XC-APPGROUP
XC-MISC
XEVIE
XInputDeviceEvents
XInputExtension
XTEST
default screen number: 0
number of screens: 1

screen #0:
dimensions: 1152x900 pixels (325x254 millimeters)
resolution: 90x90 dots per inch
depths (2): 1, 8
root window id: 0x32
depth of root window: 8 planes
number of colormaps: minimum 1, maximum 1
default colormap: 0x22
default number of colormap cells: 256
preallocated pixels: black 1, white 0
options: backing-store YES, save-unders YES
largest cursor: unlimited
current input event mask: 0xfa203f
KeyPressMask KeyReleaseMask ButtonPressMask
ButtonReleaseMask EnterWindowMask LeaveWindowMask
ButtonMotionMask StructureNotifyMask SubstructureNotifyMask
SubstructureRedirectMask FocusChangeMask PropertyChangeMask
ColormapChangeMask
number of visuals: 6
default visual id: 0x23
visual:
visual id: 0x23
class: PseudoColor
depth: 8 planes
available colormap entries: 256
red, green, blue masks: 0x0, 0x0, 0x0
significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
visual:
visual id: 0x24
class: DirectColor
depth: 8 planes
available colormap entries: 8 per subfield
red, green, blue masks: 0x7, 0x38, 0xc0
significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
visual:
visual id: 0x25
class: GrayScale
depth: 8 planes
available colormap entries: 256
red, green, blue masks: 0x0, 0x0, 0x0
significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
visual:
visual id: 0x26
class: StaticColor
depth: 8 planes
available colormap entries: 256
red, green, blue masks: 0x7, 0x38, 0xc0
significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
visual:
visual id: 0x27
class: TrueColor
depth: 8 planes
available colormap entries: 8 per subfield
red, green, blue masks: 0x7, 0x38, 0xc0
significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
visual:
visual id: 0x28
class: StaticGray
depth: 8 planes
available colormap entries: 256
red, green, blue masks: 0x0, 0x0, 0x0
significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
#

jmd wrote:
> I bought a sun ultra 5 360 mhz a couple of weeks ago and the best video i can
> get so far is 8 bit graphics. this ultra had never been used as i peeled
> the stickers off the power supply area in back and had a setup screen for
> Sol7 when i booted the box.
>
> in my searching the net i find differing opinions as to whether or not any
> ultra5s came with 24 bit graphics. the sun ultra5 user manual i found,
> said this:
>
> Note: Systems with PGX24 graphics have "PGX24" or "Series 3" printed on
> the serial number label this is affixed to the front bezel.
>
> I have "Series 3" on this label. But so far I can only get 8 bit depth in
> Solaris 9. (see xdpyinfo below) Chipset onboard has "ATI 3d Rage Pro Turbo
> PCI". Is there a configuration setting i am missing in Sol9?
>
> On a sun website there is also a reference as to not being able to use 8
> and 24 simultaneously with the PGX24. I only need 24.
>
<snip>

what happens when you run m64config?

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In article <pan.2004.10.25.02.53.56.25979@charter.net>,
jmd <jmd8800@charter.net> writes:
> I bought a sun ultra 5 360 mhz a couple of weeks ago and the best video i can
> get so far is 8 bit graphics. this ultra had never been used as i peeled
> the stickers off the power supply area in back and had a setup screen for
> Sol7 when i booted the box.
>
Use the m64config command to configure the depth/resolution:

# m64config -depth 24 -res 1152

and restart the X server.

Steve

man m64config
m64config -res 1152x900x76
m64config -depth 24

IMHO the 333Mhz/2MB CPU is slightly faster than the 360Mhz/256kB.

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On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 19:53:56 -0700, jmd wrote:

thanks. much nicer desktop now.

if the cpu is cheap i will more than likely upgrade as cache seems to be
critical in unix boxes.

jmd