Re: which framebuffers for sparcstation 1+

der Mouse <[email protected]> Sat, 7 Aug 2010 10:36:04 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.os.solaris.at-home
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>> So I went through my collection of other framebuffers, looking for
>> things which might be GXes.  [...]  I tried them in my 1+.

>> Three of them worked: two 501-1672s and a 501-1996.

>> Four of them wedged the POST [...]
>> Two of them gave video signal but did not [work].
> It would be interesting to see what the serial console output shows
> for each of these as the system starts up and runs through POST then
> fires the OBP to search for a boot loader.

It would - though I suspect at least some of them wouldn't make it all
the way through POST and thus wouldn't get into OBP.

Some one of these days, when my round tuit supply has recovered a bit
from recent drainage, I may do that.

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