Re: which framebuffers for sparcstation 1+

On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, silvercreekvalley wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Anyone know which framebuffers will work with a
> SPARCStation 1+. I have a cg3 which works fine,
> but wondered if any of the later cards will work.
>
> I'd like to get something where I can output the
> display to a regular monitor. I did try a
> TurboGX (chip is labelled TurboXGX) 501-2325
> but the SPARCstation wouldn't even boot with this
> card.

You should be able to get the GX cards to work. The TurboGX cards (-2325 
and -2992) may not have any support even in the later bootROM versions.

Something like the 501-1996 should work though.

Craig.

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