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Hello,

I have an E3500 running S8 at work that has a terminal connected to port A.
There is no keyboard, nor is there a display connected to the SBus based
cgsix
framebuffer. We are using framebuffer, because we need an X-Server to do
graphics rendering for a Java app ( before anyone suggests it the 1.4 VM
with
a -Djava.awt.headless=true switch does not work

Despite the fact that the cgsix device drivers are installed (modinfo
reports that the
device is there)

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# pkginfo -l | grep SUNWcg6
PKGINST: SUNWcg6
PKGINST: SUNWcg6h
PKGINST: SUNWcg6x

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...... we always get the following when trying to start the X-Server;
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# ./Xsun :0 -dev /dev/fbs/cgsix0
/dev/fbs/cgsix0: No such device or address
/dev/fbs/cgsix0: No such device or address
Graphics Adapter device /dev/fbs/cgsix0 is of unknown type
Fatal server error:
InitOutput: Error loading module for /dev/fbs/cgsix0

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This is a valid device as evidenced by the following;

# ls -lat /dev/fbs/cgsix0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Jul 3 14:14
/dev/fbs/cgsix0 ->../../devices/sbus@6,0/cgsix@1,0:cgsix0

Here is the current X-Server patch on the machine - which I notice is a few
revisions behind the most recent (as reported by showrev -p)

Patch: 108652-71 Obsoletes: 110499-03 Requires: Incompatibles: Packages:
SUNWxwfnt, SUNWxwice, SUNWxwplt, SUNWxwicx, SUNWxwplx, SUNWxwacx, SUNWxwdxm,
SUNWxwfa, SUNWxwinc, SUNWxwman, SUNWxwpmn, SUNWxwslb

Is it possible to forcibly run an X-Server when the console is on ttya, or
should we try running Xvfb instead?

I would appreciate it if anyone has any tips.

Thanks and regards,
Andrew