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

[Alex Carver]

--- On Mon, 3/8/10, r.stricklin <bear at typewritten.org> wrote:

> From: r.stricklin <bear at typewritten.org>
> Subject: Re: [Suns-at-Home] Identifying an Sbus VGA card
> To: suns-at-home at net-kitchen.com
> Date: Monday, March 8, 2010, 3:48 AM
> 
> 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.

I saw a few photos of GXtra cards but they didn't match this card.  I'll keep searching around a bit to see if I can figure out what it is or maybe I'll just plug it into one of the machines and see if it boots.  Perhaps the boot screen will tell me something.

These were surplus from a lab and were going to get tossed in the trash so I picked them up.  I have nothing but the board in a static bag.