[rescue] SX/cg14 question / oddity

[David Brownlee]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 at 02:04, vom513 via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>
> > On Jun 14, 2023, at 2:26 PM, David Brownlee <abs at absd.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > The ss20 is/was a nice sparc box - good to see it still running!
> >
> > Could I ask what NetBSD version you were using? There have been
> > improvements to the sx/cg14 drivers since netbsd-9 (and possibly some
> > since netbsd-10), so if you're trying netbsd-9 you  might find better
> > luck from the netbsd-10 link at http://nyftp.netbsd.org/
> >
>
> Hey David,
>
> I’m running 9.3.  When the machine is running - the SX works just fine.
>
> I was more curious / asking why it took cg14config in Solaris to change / commit the resolution settings.

Sorry - I missed that the setting in OBP was not picked up by Solaris
on boot also - it needed cg14config to fix. If it happens again maybe
it might be worth dumping the OBP settings both before and after to
work out what cg14config did - as it would be helpful to decode that
back to OBP commands if possible, and add to the NetBSD docs :)

(I had mentioned later versions of NetBSD as I know that since -9
there have been some fixes for some hardware combinations to display
correctly, and improved acceleration)

David