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Date:      Sun, 6 Dec 2009 16:18:15 +0000
From:      Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org, Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
Subject:   Solved: Re: trouble installing to sun blade 1500
Message-ID:  <20091206161815.GA70140@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20091203141711.GA43641@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
References:  <20091201154904.GA11679@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <alpine.LNX.2.00.0912011723060.21559@servww6.ww.uni-erlangen.de> <20091201165752.GA12095@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091201215130.GA64974@alchemy.franken.de> <20091202124137.GA20168@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091202125915.GA20276@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091202192134.GA6562@alchemy.franken.de> <20091203131609.GA86854@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091203141711.GA43641@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>

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On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 02:17:11PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 01:16:09PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 08:21:34PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 12:59:15PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 12:41:37PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 10:51:30PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > I get to OK prompt, type "boot cdrom", but the process
> > > > > > > > > stops after a few seconds with:
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > 	jumping to kernel entry at 0xc0088000.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > You're using an unsupported framebuffer (see the release notes).
> > > > > 
> > > > > yes, I missed that, thank you
> > > > > 
> > > > > > This unfortunately isn't sufficient information and my Blade 1500
> > > > > > doesn't exhibit this problem. Could you please put the full dmesg
> > > > > > output online somewhere (this should be easy to capture when
> > > > > > using a serial console)? Can you boot to single user?

after upgrading to the latest firmware, I can load 8.0
to silver and red 1500 blades:

http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/freebsd/

Now my problem is graphics, or at least a text console.
It looks like I've this graphics card (Sun data calles
is graphics accelerator, but this the only graphics
device in my 1500 blades, there is no other):

	Option	Part		description:
	X3780A 	375-3153 	XVR-600 Graphics Accelerator

3D LABS 54-001047-001 XVR-600 64MB PCI GRAPHICS CARD

Anybody used this card with Sun?
Is this card really not supported at all, even for
text console?

If I can get nowhere with this card, any advice for
a card I could buy for Sun Blade 1500 (red or silver)?

many thanks
anton

-- 
Anton Shterenlikht
Room 2.6, Queen's Building
Mech Eng Dept
Bristol University
University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK
Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944
Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423



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