[rescue] Tech Source/Eizo framebuffer drivers

[Mike Spooner]

Or, failing that, 
 https://archive.org/details/raptorgfx21openwindowsforsolaris_73005101b

might perhaps be of use for some Raptor cards.

-- Mike

On 6 January 2025 22:51:52 GMT, Mike Spooner via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>Several years ago, Solaris/SPARC drivers for many of the TechSource PCI graphics cards could be freely downoaded from the their website. I used Raptor GFX-8P and GFX-8M cards in my Ultra-10 under both Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 9 from 2013-2019 using those downloaded drivers, after which I gifted the Ultra-10 to another Sun fan.
>The Raptor cards were far faster and less buggy than the built-in PGX-24.
>Unfortunately and uncharacteristicly, I didn't archive those Raptor GFX drivers, doh!
>
>If a TechSource website still exists, I would poke around there first.
>
>-- Mike
>
>
>On 6 January 2025 19:16:05 GMT, Kevin Bowling via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>>This company Tech Source/Eizo made a variety of interesting
>>framebuffers for Sun (and other UNIX) systems.
>>
>>There seem to be a commercial branch that was based on common (ATI,
>>3Dlabs Permedia) chips
>>https://dljyhfp.vgamuseum.info/images/doc/techsource/sun_comparison_2002.pdf
>>
>>And a more exotic Raptor line that was used in air traffic control and
>>other high res that looks like it was initially based on Number Nine's
>>Imagine 128 and thereafter some custom ASIC and eventually FPGA.
>>
>>Does anyone have drivers for any of these cards?
>>
>>Regards,
>>Kevin
>>
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