Another Sparc hardware question (video this time)

[Kris Bodenheimer]

Right, you can use an additional card as a "secondary" but, unless the 
video card you want to put in has all the SUN id stuff in it, you can't 
boot off it.
Kurt wrote:

> I have a Sun Ultra5 and would like to have better
> video than what is standard. I plan on putting gentoo
> 64 on here, but wanted to test this out first. I have
> an Nvidia geforce pci card laying around and decided
> to give it a go. Now, booting up, its not recognized,
> so I booted to the onboard vga controller. In the
> Debian Infocenter, it shows this for the Nvidia card:
> 
> 02:02.0  VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation
> NV17 [GeForce MX 420] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 40,
> IRQ 6940992
> Memory at 000001ff01000000 (32bit, non-prefetcable)
> [disabled][size=16m]
> Memory at 000001ff08000000 (32bit, prefetchable)
> [disabled][size=128m]
> Memory at 000001ff1000000 (32bit, prefetchable)
> [disabled][size=512k]
> Expansion ROM at 0000000000020000 [size=128k]
> Capabilities: <available only to root>
> 
> Now, im logged in as root. Is there something that I
> must change in Debian to use this card? Or do I need
> to make a change in the open boot prom? There is so
> LITTLE info on this... I find it hard to believe that
> i'm the first person to have thought of this...
> 
> Kurt
>  
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