How to change/add a framebuffer device?

2007-12-25 10:43:00

Dear fellow Sun Managers,

First of all, thanks to the following Sun Managers who responded to my

question (see below after my signature):

Anthony nailed the correct answer. I followed his suggestion in

the following manner:

o put the transplanted system drive in the SS5 with the S24 card

o connect an external CDROM drive with the Solaris 5/99 CD in it

to the target machine

o ok> boot -rs

o mount -F hsfs /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0 /cdrom

o cd Solaris-2.7; cd Product ...

o pkgadd -d . SUNWtcx.m SUNWtcxow SUNWtcxu

then sync;sync;reboot. The system recognize the frame buffer immediately.

Many thanks again to Anthony for this tip. I should have checked

/opt in the original system drive first. I also could have done

a diff between the pkginfo output from a machine with TGX and TCX.

Regards,

Chin Fang

=========================== original question ============================

Dear fellow Sun Managers,

I was attempting to move a system drive from a SPARCstation 5 with TGX

frame buffer to another SPARCstation 5 with S24. Upon booting up,

the OS complained about unable to find a console frame buffer.

o both SS5 are 170Mhz type

o the OS on the aforementioned system drive is Solaris 7 5/99

I indeed made a boot -r at ok prompt.

I have been unable to find in Sun docs (including several searches at

http://docs.sun.com/) how to make Solaris aware of the fact that the

target machine has a different framebuffer.

Is there an easy way to do so?

Thanks for any tips/hints.

Regards,

Chin Fang

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