Subject: Re: cgtwelve ?
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/25/1995 14:11:36
> I have been moving all my old stuff from mothers' to my new place
> (after moving myself 4 months ago) and I found an old triple-width,
> dual-sbus slot graphics card made by Matrox and labelled an SG3.
> When booting NetBSD/sparc is identifies it as a cgtwelve. I know
> in principle that Sun made a cg12 card etc, but anyone got any
> ideas if there is a driver out there for it (maybe the sprite/mach/etc
> OSes) ?
> 
> Is the card really a cg12 or is that an emulation until you get
> the thing goin with their own drivers ?

I can't say if it was a CG12 or not (the Sun CG12's were triple-width, goodbye
available SBus slots), but I can say that as a former regular user of an SS2
with a CG12, it was so painfully slow as a framebuffer that I don't know if
you even want to bother ...

	- Greg