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DIY XVR-100 - Page 2

mattst88
From Hillsboro, OR
Who joined July 13, 2005, 9:54 a.m.
Wrote the following at Feb. 6, 2010, 5:33 p.m...
I imaging the reason a Mac version card is needed is that the Sun firmware is 128K. If this is the case, you can check out this article to see how to replace the firmware chip on a regular PC version with a larger capacity chip. http://www.darkness.uklinux.net/
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bhtooefr
Who joined Jan. 23, 2010, 3 p.m.
Wrote the following at Feb. 6, 2010, 5:43 p.m...
True, although the closer you stay to the ATI reference design, the better - clones can have issues with this.
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ritchan
From Oldenburg, Germany
Who joined March 31, 2008, 6:47 a.m.
Wrote the following at April 8, 2010, 11:14 p.m...
http://www.mediafire.com/file/uwzjzzmkw ... ashkit.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zitzmzilk ... 0512.tar.Z

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Tabalabs
From Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Who joined Nov. 11, 2010, 1:43 p.m.
Wrote the following at Dec. 3, 2010, 10:22 p.m...
Would someone install this patch on your machine and send me the xvr100.prom.1.61 file in a zip/gzip/bzip/whateverzip form?
I need to program this EEPROM outside the board, and my sun isn't operational yet :(
Thanks!
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mattst88
From Hillsboro, OR
Who joined July 13, 2005, 9:54 a.m.
Wrote the following at Dec. 3, 2010, 10:56 p.m...
You just have to use unmakeself to extract the files from the shell script.

The resulting xvr100.prom.1.61 file is available on my Radeon Flashing tools and ROMs for Mac/SPARC page.

Let me know if there are any other files I should have linked there.
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weldelandia
From Finland
Who joined Sept. 2, 2009, 2:04 p.m.
Wrote the following at Dec. 13, 2010, 2:44 a.m...
Just flashed Mac Radeon into XVR-100!

Thanks a lot for the instructions and files.
Great forum and great help.

Now let's see what this Solaris 11 is about...
zmttoxics
Who joined Aug. 31, 2009, 9:11 a.m.
Wrote the following at Dec. 13, 2010, 8:50 a.m...
weldelandia wrote: Now let's see what this Solaris 11 is about...


Solaris 11: breaking compatibility and making people cry.

/me is not impressed.
Stuff.
mattst88
From Hillsboro, OR
Who joined July 13, 2005, 9:54 a.m.
Wrote the following at Dec. 18, 2010, 3:40 p.m...
It was just pointed out to me that although the XVR-100 ROM is 128k, the last 64k are entirely zeros.

It'd be interesting to know if you can strip off the last 64k and flash it on a standard Radeon 7000.
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nixpro
Who joined Jan. 22, 2011, 2:08 a.m.
Wrote the following at Jan. 23, 2011, 2:26 a.m...
First of all, I would like to say that thanks to this thread, my XVR-100 has now a DVI console. The only quirk is that if there is also a VGA monitor connected, the console is shown on it. Go figure.

Note that the firmware upgrading utility does NOT work in Solaris 11 Express for two reasons: the device for the XVR-100 has changed from 'pfb' to 'efb'; and the information fbconfig gives is different now.
Ryan Fox
From Cape Town, South Africa
Who joined Dec. 20, 2004, 11:03 a.m.
Wrote the following at July 25, 2014, 3:45 a.m...
Hmm has anyone tried it it with a 9250 PCI?
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cb88
Who joined June 24, 2010, 7:19 p.m.
Wrote the following at July 26, 2014, 1:55 p.m...
This is a very old thread... its unlike anyone will see it perhaps you should PM.