Subject: Re: 24-bit color on CG14
To: None <wysoft@extremecode.org>
From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon@widomaker.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/26/2002 00:14:59
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 07:16:36PM -0800, wysoft@extremecode.org wrote:
> >Support for the S24 card ended with Solaris 2.5.1.  After that it
> >is treated (if at all) as a cg3/6, I think.
> 
> Ended? I still use mine occasionally with Solaris 8, and recently tested just
> fine with the Solaris 9 Beta, which to my surprise is actually a bit faster
> than Solaris 8. What did Sun do? :)
> 
> The card just screams under Linux, and it comes close in Solaris. I'm sure it
> would scream even louder under NetBSD :)

You mean in 24-bit mode it's fast?

This is the card that plugs into the special video bus on something like
an SS5?

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