[Suns-at-Home] Identifying an Sbus VGA card

[r.stricklin]

On Mar 7, 2010, at 7:31 PM, Alex Carver wrote:

> I've got a few double wide SBus video cards that I'm trying to  
> identify.  It appears to have a Sun part number of 270-1871-01 Rev 2  
> but searching for that turns up nothing.  The card is a double wide  
> SBus with two Intel i750 graphics chips on board and a Philips SAA  
> 7191 WP chip.  It has a 15-pin VGA connector, an 8-pin mini round/ 
> DIN, two RCA jacks and a 6-pin mini round/DIN.
>
> I've got a few of them and if I can identify them then perhaps I can  
> use them to let me use an LCD on some of the machines.

Not likely. From the chipset this would be a broadcast video card  
similar to VideoPix or SunVideo (though those are both single-width  
cards).

I suppose it's possible the 8-pin mini DIN is a keyboard interface, in  
which case there might be a color framebuffer outputting on the DE15.  
This would be a la the TSI GXtra card. Maybe there was a version which  
included broadcast video too. I'm not an expert on this corner of Sun  
graphics.

ok
bear