WTB: XVR-100 or higher (at a resonable price)
Bruno S. Delbono
I'm looking to add a video card to my SunFire V250. I need basic
connectivity to my LCD monitory and want to spend as little as I can.
If anyone is selling a used/working XVR-100 or higher at a resonable
price, please email me privately. It would be shipped to Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada.
Warm Regards,
-Bruno
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Robert Pouliot
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking to add a video card to my SunFire V250. I need basic
> connectivity to my LCD monitory and want to spend as little as I can.
>
mode? Just when Xsun is started. There is an unofficial fcode that should
support it (I've flashed it, but I've never tryed to make the DVI work
with my XVR-100.)
> If anyone is selling a used/working XVR-100 or higher at a resonable
> price, please email me privately. It would be shipped to Vancouver,
> British Columbia, Canada.
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Bruno Delbono
> On 2005-09-04, Bruno S. Delbono <bruno.s...@mail.ac> wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I'm looking to add a video card to my SunFire V250. I need basic
>>connectivity to my LCD monitory and want to spend as little as I can.
>>
>
> You are aware that the DVI connector is not supported at OBP and in text
> mode? Just when Xsun is started. There is an unofficial fcode that should
> support it (I've flashed it, but I've never tryed to make the DVI work
> with my XVR-100.)
Yea, I read about that earlier on a thread that was here (or
c.s.s.hardware). Sad actually, as I really want to have OBP and console
output on a DVI port.
Can I stick the VGA and the DVI cable both into the XVR-100 and have the
VGA work for console and Xsun on DVI, both connected at the same time
(If I just doggle the switch the VGA/DVI switch)?
PS - Anyone selling a XVR-100, please contact me off list.
Martin Paul
> Robert Pouliot wrote:
>> You are aware that the DVI connector is not supported at OBP and in text
>> mode? Just when Xsun is started. There is an unofficial fcode that should
>> support it (I've flashed it, but I've never tryed to make the DVI work
>> with my XVR-100.)
Do you have a source for that alternative fcode ?
> Can I stick the VGA and the DVI cable both into the XVR-100 and have the
> VGA work for console and Xsun on DVI, both connected at the same time
> (If I just doggle the switch the VGA/DVI switch)?
Yes, that's what I do on most of my XVR-100 machines.
mp.
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Stefan Jankowski
> Robert Pouliot wrote:
[...]
>> You are aware that the DVI connector is not supported at OBP
>> and in text mode? Just when Xsun is started. There is an
>> unofficial fcode that should support it (I've flashed it, but
>> I've never tryed to make the DVI work with my XVR-100.)
>
> Yea, I read about that earlier on a thread that was here (or
> c.s.s.hardware). Sad actually, as I really want to have OBP and
> console output on a DVI port.
>
> Can I stick the VGA and the DVI cable both into the XVR-100 and
> have the VGA work for console and Xsun on DVI, both connected
> at the same time (If I just doggle the switch the VGA/DVI
> switch)?
That did work for me, but I had to hack the Xservers file to use the
DVI-output for X. The DVI-output is actually served by a second
framebuffer device which one must make the X server recongnise as it's
1st screen (:0.0), so that dtlogin will be started there rather than
on the screen which serves the VGA-output. (I /think/ I used something
like '-dev /dev/fbs/pfb0b -dev /dev/fbs/pfb0a' but just a few weeks
ago I moved to a new office and a new workstation and I don't have my
backups at hand right now...)
Regards,
Stefan
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Robert Pouliot
> Bruno Delbono <bruno.s...@mail.ac> wrote:
>> Robert Pouliot wrote:
>>> You are aware that the DVI connector is not supported at OBP and in text
>>> mode? Just when Xsun is started. There is an unofficial fcode that should
>>> support it (I've flashed it, but I've never tryed to make the DVI work
>>> with my XVR-100.)
>
> Do you have a source for that alternative fcode ?
>
The fcode is for the 32MB version of the card.
Martin Paul
> On 2005-09-05, Martin Paul <m...@par.univie.ac.at> wrote:
>> Bruno Delbono <bruno.s...@mail.ac> wrote:
>>> Robert Pouliot wrote:
>>>> You are aware that the DVI connector is not supported at OBP and in text
>>>> mode? Just when Xsun is started. There is an unofficial fcode that should
>>>> support it (I've flashed it, but I've never tryed to make the DVI work
>>>> with my XVR-100.)
>>
>> Do you have a source for that alternative fcode ?
>>
> Search google for xvr-100 dvi console and you should find it.
Ok, got it, from: http://chs2.gdc4s.com/sw_supt.htm
> The fcode is for the 32MB version of the card.
I don't know whether I have the 32MB version, but it seems that the
fcode patch comes with version 1.61 of the PROM firmware, while I
have version 2.3. The update script tells me that therefore my PROM
doesn't need to be updated (and I wouldn't want to force it, without
the possibility to go back to the original PROM version).
The PROM patch seems to come from Sun (there's a copyright in the
PROM update shell script). This and the fact that it's obviously
not a hardware limit makes me think about why there is no official
PROM update for all XVR-100s from Sun ?