Framebuffer device not showing up after installing Creator3D Graphics in Ultra 10
Hello,
I've been working on restoring an Ultra 10 running Solaris 8 which was missing the graphics card when I got it. I got a replacement Creator 3D card for it and after installing I hooked it up to my Sun X7121A 21" CRT monitor using the 13W3 connector. OBP comes up fine and throughout the boot process everything seems great. After Solaris 8 starts the GUI login screen however, the shell just sits there after displaying the: Code:
************************************************************** Through 'dmesg', it appears the system recognizes the card in the UPA slot and assigns it 'ffb0' which is what I would expect. Here is the output: Code:
# dmesg | grep ffb0 Code:
# fbconfig -list Code:
# ffbconfig Thanks in advance! Austin |
Well, I feel dumb now. By doing some research on a whole different topic I learned that there is a
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boot -r From the documentation (note this was Solaris 10 documentation, but still applied to me for Solaris 8 obviously): Code:
A reconfiguration boot tells the system to probe for all connected devices and build the names for them in /devices and /dev. A reconfiguration boot, performed when adding new hardware to the system, is triggered by booting with the -r option. Code:
If another device of an existing type (with the driver already installed) is added, and you forget to do a reconfiguration boot, use the following commands to tell the system to recognize the new device. |
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