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Don't know a better place where to put the photo. BTW: have the perm of the owner to show this photo w/ SNI labeled Indy's, one white, the other origin color w/ foreign SNI logo.


Sorry for rape the thread after four month for this :-\

Thx for the links. I take already a look. Nice.

Mmm ... anyone here w/ a copy of package SUNWxglh in version 3.1 for SPARC (XGL Include Files - Headers) also included in the " Solaris 2.4 Software Developer Kit " (CD-ROM) or some developer enabled version of SunPHIGS for SPARC? The package SUNWxglh was later included in the Solaris install media starting from release 2.5. Not sure if XGL version 3.2 (Solaris 2.5) is backward compatible for use with Solaris 2.4!? I should give it a try. The problem is that the GS is not supported under 2.5 and later releases ( http://www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov/install/sparcgraphics.html ). :-\

Some more information claiming the GS as an " straightforward low-end system ", including some architecture details ( Source ) - nice

BTW: I'm confused about the different versions of the cg12 versions, because ...

GRAPHICS
(...)
1067972 hi res version of cg12 ( gsxr ) text is trash in pr_b
( Source )

/opt/SUNWdiag/bin/cg12.data. gsxr
/opt/SUNWdiag/bin/cg12.data
( Source )

My board has Sun Part# 370-1370, the 370-1407 or 370-1551 is confirmed by photo .
( * ) FEH 2.1 GS for SS10/SPARCstation 10)

There where some graphics options in the 90's which are able to support even higher resolutions, if necessary not in 24-Bit color depth.
The following table lists all Sun boards (from the SSH) I could remember, used in the 90's (<2000) with resolution support >= 1600*1200 px
Other sources for non-Sun products are already stated

@agb2008: mail w/ attachment

Until now...
- "only" found the SDK 2.5 which contains at least the XGL headers, examples and manual pages but the header files refering to XGL version 3.0
- still interested in and searching for Solaris 2.4 Software Development Kit :-\

Soon I put the GS in my Sun SPARCstation 2 and install Solaris 2.4 plus the header package of SDK 2.5.
Then will do a trace on the SunDiag run to know if I already have the high resolution version and low res is maybe 1024*768 with Sun Part# 370-1329 (?)
Solaris 2.4 includes the following packages for the GS 24-bit Framebuffer
PRODVERS refering to the GFX Version 2.3, so the 4.1.1 GFX tape (for SunOS 4.1.1) mentioned before does not contain any XGL or SunPHIGS files for development (header), only runtime (RT) files (loadable pipline drivers for XGL).

Because I don't have access to my SPARCstation 2 at the moment, I have to use my SNI PCD-4H/33 with Solaris 2.4 for testing the SDK 2.5 packages.


After compiling all examples, one "frameshot" of demo color_cube running with 8-bit (indexed) color depth

Seems to work, some kind of ... with demo transparency_ovl the X Server crashed after loading the two OpenLook windows.

escimo wrote: Seems to work, some kind of ... with demo transparency_ovl the X Server crashed after loading the two OpenLook windows.

The demo (transparency_ovl) is working in general, but always if I want to take a screenshot the X Server will fail and terminate. Nevertheless there isn't much acceleration with my x86 box: no dedicated dev pipeline (dynamically-loadable shared object module) for the built-in graphics chip (CL GD-5428, 1MB DRAM). Simply the systen does not fit for this purpose w/ this configuration:

No DGA (Direct Graphics Access) support to bypass the X11 protocoll overhead.

The inq demo application call xgl_inquire() for some more detailed information


One XIL image viewer demo


Next step: install pkgs on SPARCstation under Solaris 2.4
Whoever wants to test the small demos, send me PM.

escimo wrote: Then will do a trace on the SunDiag run to know if I already have the high resolution version and low res is maybe 1024*768 with Sun Part# 370-1329 (?)

After I found the header file cg12reg.h it's clear and interesting because I don't have any further information about the HR version.

miod wrote:

pilot345 wrote: You are missing the Sun ZX/Leo and the Parallax boards.

Someone seen or know the following boards?
* DuPont Pixel Systems GLengine-24XP and GLengine-48XP SBus boards (2nd generation) for PX/ IRIS GL port for SPARC.

VME boards alternatives...
* Evans & Sutherland (E&S) Freedom Series 1000 and 3000 (stand-by graphics subsystem) using e.g. ES/PEX, XGL
* Vicom Visual Computing VX and MVX (1x/4x i860)

Soon try some of the XGL samples, running on my SS2 with GS graphics under Solaris 2.4.

BTW: PCD-4H using now a ATi Graphics Ultra Pro (Mach32) ISA board wit 2 MiB VRAM for higher resolution (1280*1024px @ 8bpp) in conjunction with 19" LCD for crispy clear fonts, ok better than before, because scaling could not be switched off with resolution less than the native one.

escimo wrote: Soon try some of the XGL samples, running on my SS2 with GS graphics under Solaris 2.4.

Info with XGL install_check on the SPARSstation 2GS running Solaris 2.4 HW 3/95 Operating Environment


C compiler and XGL header files next.

After installation of all tools and utilities, including header files I managed to compile all XGL and XIL demos.
The output of the XGL demo "inq" wasn't what I expected: still many lines with "emulated in software"


My favorite demo "transparency_ovl" (transparency overlay) breaks in the moment the OpenLook window opens. With my x86 box there is no problem at all.
Maybe some other application blocking or occupying the overlay map? - I have no idea.


Some of the demos are much faster, e.g. in rotation/transformation, compared to the x86 box w/o special XGL device pipeline but higher (internal 66MHz) clockrates. Also the sundiag test cases for the CG12 are much faster in displaying the results compared to the SPARCstation 1+ (Sun-4/65).

Window screenshot of XIL example with CT image (?)

Screenshot of XIL demo movie_player_example (JPEG playback)

Hope to find better demos for the CG12, some day

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Thx, have the docs already but are quite interesting. The QG-640 is from an internal view - excluding Q-bus - equal to PG-640, I suppose. And yes, the parent directory has many more stuff.

Nice update. So this is now the maxed out version of the XS?

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RasterFlex-HR is near to be shipped to you. My package is on the way to you.

ClassicHasClass wrote: I don't know why it wants to be ID 3 unless it's something about that particular model. My SCSI2SD has two partitions, 0 and 1. That works just fine here.

SunOS expacting the primary hard disk to have SCSI ID 3, second drive with SCSI ID 1. It seems to be hard coded into the the (default) kernel:

Source: http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD ... STALL.html (+ supplements)
EDIT: I'm out of my mind. ID 7 has to be the HBA/Ctrl.

Source: SMCC, Manual 800-566-11 (reduced information)

I never tried to change the kernel settings for SCSI ID 3 and 0 or know if it's possible to change before recompiling the SunOS kernel.
If this is possible you have to change the harddisk ID's 3->0 before trying to start the next time with the new kernel.
Looking into the sources could show you if this is easy made or not. I suppose not.

Cheers, escimo

Does Nekochan forum have a simple method of presenting their web sites, like WAP, as well?

Try to open the forum with Netscape 3 from an i486 under Solaris 2.4 x86 and it didn't work (Bad req err code 400...). After some google usage should be problem with cookies. Found no way to dissable cookies under Netscape 3 after all.

One option could be to upgrade to Netscape 4. Because it's already damn slow with N3 it can't getting more worse with N4, I hope.
Option two is to switch to text based browsing (e.g. lynx). Anyone here who browsing through Nekochan forum with text browser?

Thanks. I will pick the best option for me, claro.

Have to take a look into the downloads once did. But it will be more like version 1.x. Version 0.x, not sure.