Re: E220r graphics options?
"Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <[email protected]>
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On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 18:02 +0100, mat wrote: > > Maybe. The PROM might not recognize the video device, your best bet > > might be to hunt down a PCI Creator. > > > Just for reference the PGX series of PCI cards are officially supported > for the E220r so I've just shipped my friend a couple of PGX32s to try. > > I've run into a weird problem with my ultra60 though which has recently > been running solaris - booting firstly aurora 2.98, then debian etch and > the latest ubuntu versions from CD all result in "illegal instruction" > errors just after loading the itidrd. Some quick research actually > showed that this is a very common problem apparently, although I have > never run into it before in years of using sparcs/aurora. I flashed the > OBP to 3.31 [latest version?] with no change. More googling suggested > always cold booting and that does seem to suffice to boot the aurora > 2.98 installer from CD ok but all the other distros only get as far as - > > Remapping the kernel... done. > Booting Linux > > They hang there, even with "install fb=true" at the SILO prompt. Try booting with -p, and see if you get any additional output. ~spot _______________________________________________ Aurora-sparc-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.auroralinux.org/mailman/listinfo/aurora-sparc-user Aurora FAQ: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~mas01r/aurorafaq.html