Hi

Is it possible to use a sbus GX framebuffer taken from a SS2 in a
sparc station 10.

I have tried but there is nothing in the monitor.
I have experimented with device-output but that did not
change the output.


/Michael Grunditz

> Is it possible to use a sbus GX framebuffer taken from a SS2 in a
> sparc station 10.

Yes.

> I have tried but there is nothing in the monitor.
> I have experimented with device-output but that did not
> change the output.

Maybe the monitor or the card is broken. But I've used GX in SS10s with
no problems.


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In message <3F7FF2E0.D5@unixnerd.demon.co.uk>
John Burns <john@unixnerd.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Yes.
>
> > I have tried but there is nothing in the monitor.
> > I have experimented with device-output but that did not
> > change the output.
>
> Maybe the monitor or the card is broken. But I've used GX in SS10s with
> no problems.
>
>
I have tried it with several monitors , with no luck. It worked in the SS2.

/Michael

> I have tried it with several monitors , with no luck. It worked in the SS2.

Sounds like you have a dead SS10 then :-(

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In message <3F8007AB.1996@unixnerd.demon.co.uk>
John Burns <john@unixnerd.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> > I have tried it with several monitors , with no luck. It worked in the SS2.
>
> Sounds like you have a dead SS10 then :-(
>
It is not dead when using serial console , is there any special
magic trick to do when installing a framebuffer to a machine who never
had one.. ?


/Michael

Michael Grunditz wrote:

|>> > I have tried it with several monitors , with no luck. It worked in the SS2.

|> It is not dead when using serial console , is there any special
|> magic trick to do when installing a framebuffer to a machine who never
|> had one.. ?

Connect a keyboard.

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Michael Grunditz <migu@telia.com> wrote:
> It is not dead when using serial console , is there any special
> magic trick to do when installing a framebuffer to a machine who never
> had one.. ?

Check that the OBP "input-device" is set to "keyboard" and the
"output-device" is set to "screen". These are the defaults (and the
system will drop to serial console if it can't find a keyboard attached),
but they may have been changed to "ttya" which will disable the keyboard/
screen as the console (although you should still be able to see it once the
machine is booted)

Scott.

In article <577faf3c4c.micken@privat.utfors.se>,
Michael Grunditz <migu@telia.com> wrote:

> It is not dead when using serial console , is there any special
> magic trick to do when installing a framebuffer to a machine who never
> had one.. ?

Have you looked at the OpenBoot parameters? If output-device and
input-device is set to "ttya" then the framebuffer will be ignored.
Make sure that output-device is set to "screen" and input-device
is set to "keyboard".

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On Sunday 05 October 2003 2:27 pm in comp.sys.sun.hardware Michael Grunditz
wrote:


>>
> It is not dead when using serial console , is there any special
> magic trick to do when installing a framebuffer to a machine who never
> had one.. ?

Check for bent pins on the framebuffer plug.


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