Re: [suse-sparc] Frame-Buffer/Video-Card from Parallax

From: Joshua Uziel (uzi@suse.com)
Date: Thu Feb 01 2001 - 12:38:00 PST

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    Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:38:00 -0800
    From: Joshua Uziel <uzi@suse.com>
    Message-ID: <20010201123800.C22890@gimp.org>
    Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Frame-Buffer/Video-Card from Parallax
    

    This is a project that some people of the sparc/linux community would be
    interested in... people ask about these cards every so often on the
    mailing lists, and the answer is "no, they don't work in SPARC/Linux",
    not just SuSE. The demand for this support isn't _that big_, but if you
    (or someone) added support for their fb's, I wouldn't complain. ;)

    * Alex Dumitru <alex@telus.net> [010201 11:32]:
    > I have two of these cards, and have had one successfuly working in a
    > Sparcstation LX with Solaris 2.7. I have the old Parallax Web Site archived
    > on a CD, with app notes, cable diagrams, and the drivers for solaris 1.1 and
    > 2.7. AFAIK, there is no support in SuSE Linux for this card. (I ended up
    > yanking it out of the system, before installing SuSE/Sparc 7.0 on the LX).
    >
    > Is this a project that the [suse-sparc] community would be interested in?
    >
    > > I have a SPARC 5 with a Parallax Multivideo Framebuffer with Video-In
    > > for a ccd-Camera.
    > >
    > > Have anybody experiences with this card or any card from Parallax.
    > > I'have read that Parallax is out of busines.
    > > www.parallax.com and www.parallaxgraphics.com are not reachable.
    > > YAST2 could not use my Card.



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