Sun Fire V250 - PCI Video Cards ?

S

Swedishiron

I am considering purchasing a Sun Fire V250 and wonder if anyone can steer to me to PCI video cards other then SUN branded ones that are compatible and supported by FreeBSD ?
 
Starting with 7.2-RELEASE, sparc64 systems based on Sun UltraSPARC III and beyond are also supported by FreeBSD, which includes the following known working systems:
  • Sun Blade 1000
  • Sun Blade 1500
  • Sun Blade 2000
  • Sun Blade 2500
  • Sun Fire 280R
  • Sun Fire V210
  • Sun Fire V215 (support first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE)
  • Sun Fire V240
  • Sun Fire V245 (support first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE)
  • Sun Fire V250
  • Sun Fire V440 (support for the on-board NICs first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE and 8.0-RELEASE)
  • Sun Fire V480 (501-6780 and 501-6790 centerplanes only, for which support first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE, other centerplanes might work beginning with 8.3-RELEASE and 9.0-RELEASE)
  • Sun Fire V880
  • Sun Fire V890 (support first appeared in 7.4-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE, non-mixed Ultrasparc IV/IV+ CPU-configurations only)
  • Sun Netra 20/Netra T4
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I know that FreeBSD is compatible the Sun Fire V250; my concern in PCI video card compatibility. Would I be able to buy ANY PCI card that is slot compatible and supported by FreeBSD and use it ? I am trying to avoid dependency on Sun branded PCI cards. The V250 is a headless server by default but Sun branded PCI Video Cards/Frame Buffers were available as add-on.
 
Thanks @throAU! I found only support Sun graphic cards.

Sun Fire V250 Server - component list graphics:
X3769A # 375-3126 # XVR-100 Graphics Accelerator (32MB)
X3770A # 375-3181 # XVR-100 Graphics Accelerator (64MB)
X3780A # 375-3153 # XVR-600 Graphics Accelerator
X7296A # 375-3290 # XVR-100 Graphics Accelerator (64MB), RoHS:Y
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Check price here.

# ifb(4), a driver for Sun Expert3D, Expert3D-Lite, XVR-500, XVR-600 and XVR-1200 framebuffers (accelerated).
# wildcatfb(4), an X driver for Sun Expert3D, Expert3D-Lite, XVR-500, XVR-600 and XVR-1200 framebuffers (unaccelerated).
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OpenBSD supports drivers, for more information check here.

IIRC the XVR-100 is basically an ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition, see radeon(4x). Probably someone tested it and reported results.
 
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