Bob Hauck said: > On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, nate wrote: > >> one of my ultra 1s is essentially a monitor stand for the moment, >> waiting for the weather to cool off before i turn it on again, > > Somebody just gave me an Ultra 1 model 170. Haven't decided whether to > install Solaris 9 or Debian (it has Solaris 2.6 on it now but that seems > to be in a bad state). > > Any idea how much I'm looking at to upgrade the video to something better > than 256 colors?
depends on the system. on the ultra 1 I have here it's not upgradable, well it is, but the video card that I could use is ONLY compadible with solaris 2.5.1(not 2.6->9). I don't remember what model mine is or how to find out, but if you open the chassis up, try to find what's called a UPA slot, you may be able to find a picture of them through google, but they look quite different from the SBUS slots which your system will have a couple of, the SBUS looks like a SCSI connector in a way, you need a UPA slot to run a more modern video card. the UPA is more like a mini PCI connector, one long blade in the middle of the connector. if you don't have UPA your pretty much out of luck unless you want to run solaris 2.5.1(ew). I may be able to track down the video card I was getting quotes on, it's MASSIVE, I mean its about the size of the motherboard(double layered I think), and uses 2 SBUS connectors. if you have UPA, the video cards for that are not hard to find, usually named "Creator 3D". I made the mistake of buying one on ebay before I realized that it was not compadible with my ultra 1 :( luckily my former company has about 9 ultra 1s that they are selling for cheap, I plan topickup 1 or 2 creator 3ds that they have(cheaper then the video card I bought even!) nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
