Stephan,

On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 10:44:17PM +0200, Stephan S. wrote:

> hello ultrasparc-ers,
> 
>   I have here 2 full length video boards that come out of sun ultra 5 or 10 workstations and were on the way to the dumpster (what a shame)
>   the boards were in working condition when pulled from the machines and have not been operated many hours before.
> 
>   unforunately i cannot get any pdf out of
> http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/Workstation_Products/Graphics_and_Media_Accelerators/index.html;$sessionid$UHIENTAAAEWXVAMTA1LU3NQ
>   to try to identify what these are exactly...
> 
>   the two chips (out of a dozen) that look important are labelled "conexant bt498akhf240 ...(more numbers)" and "sun 100-5512-01 l2a0791 wlc26047 ... (more numbers)"
>   on the slot cover side there is a typical sun video connector (big sub-d w. 3 coax - the bt498 is next to it) and a mini din 8p
>   on the mobo bus side there is a two row / two part edge connector similar to pci but too far away from the slot cover so it can't be pci (the sun chip is next to it) - my educated guess would be s-bus (on an ultra machine?) or a sun private video port...

Sounds like a member of the Creator family (ffb). They are a UPA card.
They are a full length card but most of the space is rather empty.

The Ultra 10 has UPA but the 5 does not. Bigger workstation machines also
have a UPA slot, and sometimes more than one.

Older sbus Ultra workstations like the Ultra 1 and 2 have a UPA bus
but the UPA slot and cards are different to what is found in the newer
systems.

I believe the mini din is s-video output, but haven't actually tried
to use it.

>   I know this equipment is expensive when to buy - can anyone tell the right price, please? (couriosity can make men poor)

I think the creator cards are ~$200-300 extra with a U10 for the base model,
the newer, faster ones are more $$.

>   if it is of use for netbsd contribution I'd send them for 50.00 euro (= packaging, shipping, some beer) each to european destinations (not worth reimporting sun equipment to u.s., isn't? :-)

There isn't currently a driver for the ffb card, so it will only
serve as an expensive text console for NetBSD/sparc64. The onboard
pgx on the U5/10 also works only as a text console.

g.