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SunVideo on Sparc 10/20

Post by Scott Mich » Wed, 01 Jan 1997 04:00:00



I've ran into a unique problem: I'm working on a project that is using
an ancient Sparc 10 (only two years old, 2 x 50 Mhz processors, 32 MB RAM)
where we'd like to use a SunVideo board to do some mcast over ATM testing.
(And don't ask me which ATM boards and switches we're using; we're
definitely seeing the FOREfront of device driver spooge.)

The problem: Have a SunVideo board and camera in a Sparc 20. The Sparc 20

'vic' mcast application, I get really nice pictures of my office. Take
the same board and put it into the Sparc 10, and it identifies the device

I spent the morning surfing and I know that vfc is the older VideoPix
board; drivers are provisionally available from Sun. It's the same board
being identified differently in different machines. I tried to fool
Solaris 2.5.1 into thinking that this board was in fact a RTVC
board in the /etc/driver_aliases file, but that didn't exactly work.
(RTVC couldn't map regset 1.)

Does anyone have a really neat workaround, or does this require updated
PROMS, or what does a nifty solution entail?

-scottm
--
Scott Michel
UCLA Computer Science                   Engineer, Dessert Toppings/Floor Waxes
PhD Student                             -- Distant Early Warning ---

"AND STOP CALLING ME Scooter!" :-)

 
 
 
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New to the group, so please be easy on me.

Here's my question:

Is there a performance difference between a 5, 10, or 20?  During a
recent exercise we conducted, that users were complaining about their
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alleviate their woes.  Walking around doing a dmesg grep -i cpu, we
found that the 5's or 10's actually had a faster processor than the
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My suggestion was to walk around and pencil in an extra 0 on the case
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If this is too vague, please let me know and I'll try to be as
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