Re: teething probs with Sun Ultra 10 & Solaris 10
- From: Stefaan A Eeckels <hoendech@xxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 01:58:25 +0200
On 14 Aug 2006 16:37:19 -0700
thick_guy_9@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Are you using the XVR-100 on an Ultra 10? Sun site doesn't mention
anything about its suitability with Ultra Workstations. Is it a PCI
VGA card?
It is. It has both VGA and DVI outputs, and 64MB of RAM. You can drive
two monitors at once using Xinerama.
I have heard that it is a clone of ATI Rdeon 7000 PCI card. Hopefully,
buying an ATI (cheap) should work for me.
If you want to use it as a console, you will need the OBP support in
the XVR-100. On a PC card you won't see anything until the X server
starts.
from Unixville.com:
"Sun just introduced the Sun Ultra 25 which runs on an UltraSparc-IIIi
processor and supports up to 8GB of RAM. The CPU is actually pretty
slow and rated at 1.3Ghz, but what gets me is the price. $2,895
starting price?
I don't mean to be rude, but what are they smoking?! And worse, it
ships with the so called Sun XVR-100, aka ATI Radeon 7000. Nice, a
$25-$35 video card at best, with horrible performance. I'm a fan of
Sun stuff, but this machine is just 100% brain dead."
If you've older binaries to run, and no source code, buying these
machines (even a lot of them) is far cheaper than redeveloping the
application. Or if you want to replace older workstations like the SB
[1,2]K, you'll find that the price (after discount) is less than the
cost of their annual maintenance).
Nobody pays list.
--
Stefaan A Eeckels
--
The one thing IT really needs to outsource is the freakin' clueless
managers that don't understand that there are more possibilities than
chaos on the one hand and the reduction of alternatives to zero on the
other. -- Richard Hamilton in comp.sys.sun.hardware
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