[rescue] Creator 3D on Ultra 10

Peter Stokes peter at ashlyn.co.uk
Mon May 25 17:09:57 CDT 2020


Hi

Are you booting the same O/S disk for both frame buffers, if so then you will
have the original install monitor setup only and you need to reassign the main
/dev/fb to be the one you want.

Best way to check the frame buffer quickly is boot from CD to the install
windows screen.

Peter

> On 25 May 2020, at 23:04, silvercreekvalley <silvercreekvalley at yahoo.com>
wrote:
>
> Fresh from success with the sparcstation, I thought Ibd upgrade the Ultra
10
> with a creator 3d graphics.
>
> Card installed fine, and when I boot the U10 I see the card is recognised
(new
> logo) and seems to boot OK.
>
> However there is no X11 display.
>
> Ibve checked the ffbconfig with ffbconfig -propt, etc
>
> its set at 1280x1024x60 which is fine for the monitor Ibm using. I tried
> some diferent res but all gives the same.
>
> X11 does work OK on the built in frame buffer though (when booted with the
> screen plugged in).
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