On 03/21/11 09:39 AM, Nikola M. wrote: > I see now that on Oracle Desktop site, there are few graphics cards: > > Graphics Cards > * Sun XVR-300 Graphics Accelerator > * Sun XVR-2500 Graphics Accelerator > * NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Graphics Accelerator > * NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 Graphics Accelerator > * NVIDIA Quadro FX 570 Graphics Accelerator > * NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290 Graphics Accelerator (128MB) > > So Oracle is selling graphic cards that can not work under SPARC/Solaris but > only under x86, > and the only two that can work on SPARC are XVR* ones?
Yes, since Sun made both SPARC & x64 workstations, they sold graphics cards for each. The XVR series are for the SPARCs, the NVIDIA Quadros for the x64. > I suppose drivers are not there since low amount of cards is needed on SPARC > market and cards needs to have special ROM inside. > Is it only software/firmware side on the graphics card for OBP support or > hardware needs to be different, too for Graphics card to work under SPARC? The hardware needs to fit into the slots & space available in your machine, and not use more power than is available. Many SPARC servers can't take a full size PCI-E x16 card that you'd find in a typical PC, and cabling in all the extra power for a high powered GPU may not work well either. > Seems to me like interesting point of sale for small to very small company for > production of SPARC OBP supporting cards. There used to be a few small companies doing that. http://techsource.com/ seems to still have a few. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
