XVR-600 in a Sunblade 1000

"Ben Lewis" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.solaris.at-home
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Folks

Just ordered an XVR-600 frame buffer from ebay.fr. Seems quite rare to
find them on this side of the pond and the price was ok.

I got it for a couple of reasons. Last year I found a really nice Philips
220EW monitor in the supermarket but it doesn't work with the standard VGA
of the Sunblade, moving to DVI should make it work.

I also installed this yesterday and have been having a lot of fun pitting
bot armies against one another and joining in from my G5.

http://ioquake3.org/get-it/

Works fine under Solaris in server mode but graphics performance is pretty
dire when trying to play even though CPU usage only ever goes up to about
40%.

One question, what do I need to do to Solaris 10 after the card is
physically installed? I seem to remember running boot -n to rebuild /dev
when adding a tape drive but I've never added a new frame buffer before.
Do I need to do the same here? What about OpenGL drivers etc? Are they all
there in a standard Solaris 10 install?

Best regards

Ben
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