[rescue] Graphics on a E450

[Steve Hatle]

I ran a screen and KB/mouse on my E450 when I had one. I had all the pieces, so I figured “why not?”

Always handy to have an easy console. 

Steve

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> On Nov 5, 2025, at 11:08 AM, Dave McGuire via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
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> On 11/3/25 18:52, Joshua D. Boyd via rescue wrote:
>>>> I received a decommissioned E450 from work. I don't see a frame buffer in it, so I guess it ran headless. The E450 falls into a gap in my experience with Sun (I left the first time in '97 and came back in '03). What graphics is supported and how does it compare to SS20 graphics? The System Handbook lists PGX, PGX32, PGX64, and Expert3D but I hadn't heard of any of those before I looked at that list.
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>>>  It can definitely be done, but I'd have to wonder why one would want that on a machine that is very clearly a server.  I've worked with a lot of E450s at a lot of sites, but I don't think I've ever seen one with a framebuffer, so clearly I'm not the only person with that opinion.
>> Wasn’t there some sort of visualization workstation configuration of that with 3 or 4 Expert3D cards sold for driving a dataviz wall?  That isn’t something you could do with a U80 at that time, to my understanding.
>> Google says some people did this, but I can’t find if it was an official configuration option.
> 
>  Oh man, that does sound like fun.
> 
>              -Dave
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