Re: SunPCI & Windows

From: Richard L. Hamilton (Richard.L.Hamilton_at_mindwarp.smart.net)
Date: 03/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:06:55 -0000

In article <c4bc5u$etg$2@eol.dd.chalmers.se>,
        dol@ce.chalmers.se (Fredrik Lundholm) writes:
> In article <c4b94o$6kc$1@surz18.uni-marburg.de>,
> Stefan Rabanus <rabanus@staff.uni-marburg.de> wrote:
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I run a Sun Blade 100 with SunOS 5.9 and, additionally, a SunPCI 2.2.2 card
>>with Windows XP professional installed. I have two problems with the SunPCI
>>card and Windows:
>
>>(i) I have a German keyboard which works perfectly with my SunOS (I didn't
>
> You should set the environment variable KBTYPE to something german
> before running 'sunpci' and it should work properly.
>
>>(ii) Windows is not able to play back media formats like quicktime or wmv.
>
> The Blade 100 graphic subsystem is the bottleneck. In my experience you
> need a 64 bit PCI-bus and a fast videocard for this to work. (Creator 3d OK).
> (Ie a u60, blade 1000 or better)

Well, I think the real bottleneck is the 32-bit, 33MHz PCI bus on the
Sun Blade 100 (and 150). If that's the case, it might work better if the
SunPCI were set up to use its own video interface rather than to display
within an X window.

Even native video players (except xine, which has some special support
to do some of the work on the pgx64) can't manage much of a frame rate
with larger window sizes on the Sun Blade 100 (even xine couldn't do it
with actual full-screen video, 'cause it's getting past the bus bottleneck
by having the pgx64 scale from something smaller to full-screen). 

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