On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Hillel Lubman<shtetl...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've got a used Sun Fire V240 server and want to try to test it with > OpenSolaris. But there i > no video card there installed (I don't have experience with servers, it's > possible to access it > through serial port probably, but I prefer to put a video card there). > Specific Sun PCI video > cards for it cost around $200 or more. Is it compatible with some generic PCI > video cards > (assumed it's supported by OpenSolaris)?
The short answer (the long one only if you are really curious, or browse the xwin-discuss archives) : Go to a popular auction site and happily find PGX32's, PGX64's, XVR-100's or Techsource Raptor 8p's for down to less than $10 end price. Then, because this box is a server, it may have a problematic compile of the OBP version it is shipping with, wherre misc. address ranges are somehow blocked. Because I do not collect servers for testing, I cannot tell you if Xorg will work on this machine. Moreover it might be, that officially unsupported gfx cards _do_not_ function on it at all, not even with Xsun. One such example where I noticed this is SF280R or N20 <---> SB1000/2000. So only buy a card with a chipset and the fcodes that is "officially" Sun-supported. Your safest bet is the XVR-100. Afterwards you need to install SXCE Xsun-packages yourself, to get the drivers into the system (the Xsun ddx drivers). The fb drivers are in the opensolaris.org repo. For further questions pls. let's switch over to xwin-discuss. I put it into the CC. -- %martin _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
