Service manual

C-8 Sun Ultra 2 Series Service Manual • July 1996
■ Programmable gamma correction; four-color lookup tables help eliminate color
flashing within an 8-bit window system environment
■ Texture cache for texture mapping
■ Acceleration for X11 and XIL graphics libraries
■ Acceleration for 3-D applications (XGL, OpenGL, and Java3D)
■ 3-D solids, dynamic shading, rotation, and Z-buffered acceleration
■ High resolution (1280 x 1024 pixels at 76 Hz, non-interlaced)
■ Stereo ready (960 x 680 pixels at 122 Hz, non-interlaced)
■ Dedicated graphics floating-point processing (can turn on more light points for
enhanced visual display without a performance penalty)
C.1.6.2 Graphics Card Performance
The UPA graphics cards have identical window system performance characteristics,
2-D graphics, and imaging and video applications. In addition, the UPA graphics
cards provide very fast, high-quality transformation and display of 3-D solid and
wireframe objects and dramatically accelerate high-end functionality like double
buffering, triangle and quad rendering, and lighting and shading. At the same time,
the UPA graphics cards accelerate 2-D objects that meet X11 rules. Fast 8- and 24-bit
window system and imaging performance are provided along with acceleration for
decompression and display of compressed digital video.
C.1.6.3 Graphics Not Supported
The following graphics are not supported in the Ultra 2 series systems:
■ GS SBus graphics accelerator (370-1329, 370-1370, 370-1407, and 370-1551)
■ GT graphics subsystem (501-1624, 501-1692, 501-1694, and 501-1726)
■ GT2 graphics subsystem SBus adapter card (501-1693)
■ GX (501-1481 and 501-1645)
■ GX+ (501-1717, 501-2018, and 501-2039)
■ ZX2 (501-1694)
C.1.7 Peripherals
The following peripherals are supported by the system unit or server:
■ CD-ROM drive
■ Diskette drive