Re: SOLVED: RE: Voyager framebuffer?

der Mouse <[email protected]> Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:18:49 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.os.solaris.at-home
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> I finally cracked open the case [...].  I checked out the framebuffer
> and... it's the color version!  So I had a color framebuffer talking
> to a monochrome screen, which (a) I'm surprised worked at all

Me too!  I'm totally astonished it was possible at all, doubly
astonished it was so easy you could do it without realizing it, and
triply astonished it did anything even close to "working" when you did
do it.

Fascinating.

> and (b) I'm even more surprised came up with what I'm guessing was a
> composite ID for the display, BWTHREE (a combination of BW and
> CGTHREE?).

That's less plausible to me; the colour Voyager framebuffer - when done
"right" - is a cg6, not a cg3.

Unless there's a second colour Voyager framebuffer...?  Mine sure looks
like a cg6 to software, including some cg6-specific code I have.

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