Wonderful! I put a couple 1.2 iiicu in my sb1000 a few years ago when they got cheap. 8gb ram and 2 72gb drives. With the vxr1200 running i will have the sparc desktop i always wanted.
Sent on my android tablet. There will be typos... On Jul 30, 2012 6:52 PM, "Martin Bochnig" <mar...@martux.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Daniel Kjar <dk...@elmira.edu> wrote: > > Fantastic! I can't wait to fire up my sb1000 again! > > > The SB1000/2000 is my favorite workstation, too ... as I have always said: > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/xwin-discuss/2008-August/002281.html > > http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.sys.sun.hardware/2005-05/0232.html > > These days you get the x7310a (1.2GHz III Cu) module for pennies. > And they do outperform a Dualcore SB2500 Red 1,28GHz. > Some people now think, that the Blade 1000/2000 is an electricity > waster (which is true to some degree, just make your own tests and > decide). But ironically the only other Sun SPARC Workstations that > manage to outperform the maxed out SB1000/2000 are Dual core 1.6GHz > SB2500 Silver and Ultra 45, which consume the same amount, if I can > believe these results: > > http://chrysalis.rutgers.edu/hardware/powerbrief.php > > And I read various reviews that confirm, that CAD users were > disappointed by the IIIi based machines, that did not deliver any > significant "feelable" performance boost over the SB1000/2000, despite > their higher clock, on-die (though much smaller) cache and faster > memory. > > A look to spec confirms this: > > CFP2000 Results: > SB1000/2000 IIIcu @ 1.2 GHz: > http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/res2003q2/cpu2000-20030326-02001.html > SB2500Red IIIi @ 1.28 GHz > http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/res2003q4/cpu2000-20030821-02436.html > SB2500Silver IIIi @ 1.6 GHz > http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/res2005q1/cpu2000-20050107-03681.html > > > > > I have an xvr1200 but I have pretty much determined I will never be able > to > > use that card again.... > > > Why? The XVR-1200 is similar to a XVR-600. > I know, under Xorg it would be never supported. Maybe the best one > could expect would be unaccelerated fb mode. > However, as we now have an opensrc Xsun and redistributable binary > drivers, including redistributable /dev/fb drivers for initializing > and mapping the card, plus my changes to make the stumbled / cut-down > opened version of Xsun function again, nothing should prevent you from > using your XVR-1200. And in contrast to previous versions of modified > Xorg, if now doesn't matter anymore, into which system with what kind > of pci bridge you intend to plug your card. It should function, > period. > > I know, this sounds like a dream. > And that's why we cannot ever thank Alan Coopersmith enough, that he > pushed through the opensrc release of Xsun, after it had been EOL'ed > in 2010, yet just moments before Oracle closed the tap :) > > > > > > > Do you know what card would work best? I have an ati radeon (xvr 100?) > > card and a couple of those monstrous creator3ds. > > > > Any of these cards will work. > The Creator/Creator3D/Elite3D even function with Xorg's ported > Linux/BSD drivers under Xorg, that are still available on martux.org: > http://martux.org/RELEASES/FOX1.0/SPARC/ > http://martux.org/RELEASES/SPARC_distro_incl_Xorg7.2/ > > But under Xsun every of these just functions, does so reliably and quickly. > So it rather depends on your 2D vs. 3D needs, free PCI slots vs. UPA > slots, power consumption and so on. > I in my beloved SB2000 use an Elite 3D UPA card. > Maybe the XVR-1000 (UPA) or 1200 (3D Labs Wildcat PCI) would be even > faster. > But for normal office needs, any of these should be more than sufficient. > > > > > > > rgds. > %mab > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
