Re: [foxboro] Experience with big screens on P81 Consoles?

  • From: "Loudermilk, Virgil:" <Virgil.Loudermilk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:48:03 -0400

Thanks, Kevin.  Hey, we are getting some new Windows WPs, so do you know
of any Foxboro-supported solutions on those? =20

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On Behalf Of Kevin Fitzgerrell
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 9:23 PM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] Experience with big screens on P81 Consoles?


Minor correction - if you have the older Blade 2000 version of the P81
it should support XVR-100, XVR-500, XVR-1000 or XVR-1200, not the
XVR-600.

Regards,

Kevin Fitzgerrell

On 10/12/07, Kevin Fitzgerrell <fitzgerrell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Virgil,
>
> The XVR-100 is Sun's low-end video card for these systems.  I'd lean
> towards upgrading your video card(s) to the XVR-600 or XVR-1200.
> XVR-1200 supports dual 1920x1200, the XVR-600 supports single
> 1920x1200.  You can have 3 XVR-100s or two XVR-600s or one XVR-1200 in
> most of the Blade tower boxes, Blade 2000 supports two XVR-1200s.
> Both are supported under Solaris 8.  They should be supported on your
> hardware, depending on how old your P81s are.  Both are available on
> eBay relatively inexpensively if you wanted to pick up one for a
> trial.  Neither of these are available from Sun anymore, but then the
> Blade workstations are not either.
>
> While probably not a Foxboro supported configuration, these are
> certainly a standard Sun solution, so it should be straightforward to
> make work.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kevin FitzGerrell
>
> On 10/11/07, Loudermilk, Virgil:
<Virgil.Loudermilk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If we wanted to fit a Foxview and an alarm manager screen side by
side,
> > would that be practical on a wide screen LCD?  The current screen is
a
> > 20" LCD, and the spec for the video card in these consoles, SUN
XVR-100,
> > says that it drives dual displays at 1280 X 1024, and up to a 24
inch
> > flat panel.  But it seems like you would need about a 32" screen to
fit
> > the equivalent of two 20" screens.=3D20
> >
> > Is there a better way to get more screen area?  Would it be any
easier
> > with a Windows box?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Virgil
> >
> >
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