Subject: Re: video boards
To: Grant Beattie <grant@grunta.com>
From: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 08/29/2001 09:45:18
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:00:40PM +1000, Grant Beattie wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 10:44:17PM +0200, Stephan S. wrote:
> >   on the slot cover side there is a typical sun video connector (big
> >   sub-d w. 3 coax - the bt498 is next to it) and a mini din 8p
> 
> Sounds like a member of the Creator family (ffb). They are a UPA card.

Sounds like it to me, too.

> The Ultra 10 has UPA but the 5 does not.

(At least some models of) the Ultra 5 has a UPA slot, but there's no
room in the case for the board!  If you re-fit the motherboard and power
supply to a larger case, you could plug a UPA graphics card into an
Ultra 5 motherboard.  The Ultra 5 and Ultra 10 share the same
motherboard.

> I believe the mini din is s-video output, but haven't actually tried
> to use it.

I'd bet that it's actually for stereo goggles.  Older Creator cards had
a mini-1/8th inch jack (kinda like a standard Walkman headphone jack)
for this purpose but newer ones have a mini-DIN instead.

-andy