pgx64 && syscons

[Joerg Wunsch]

As Chuck Robey wrote:

> list) about my pgx64 card.  Unfortunately, I don't know very much
> about the sparc Video yet, and those mails all referred to the
> "Creator" cards.  I think those are different cards than mine.

They are *very* different cards, indeed.  They use an UPA slot
(something like the Sun equivalent of what's called AGP on the PC).

AFAICT, using a Creator (or Creator 3D) card is by now the only option
for a graphical console on FreeBSD/sparc64.

> They were also all referring to Ultra-10 systems, mine's a Ultra-60,
> but I figure that's not important.

The U60 being a workstation, I think it does have an UPA slot, so
you could stuff a Creator into it.  Server systems usually don't have
an UPA slot.

No idea how much used Creator cards would run on eBay.

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J"org Wunsch                                           Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch at interface-systems.de        http://www.interface-systems.de/~j/