Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:26:35 +0200 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using Creator 3D on an Ultra 1E? Message-ID: <20041027152635.A1723@newtrinity.zeist.de> In-Reply-To: <20041027141246.6fa89bcc.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>; from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no on Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 02:12:46PM %2B0200 References: <20041027141246.6fa89bcc.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 02:12:46PM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > Hello, > > I have always wanted to get myself a 64 bit machine to run FreeBSD on, > but haven't been able to justify the expense of a new machine. Recently, > I was given a Sun Ultra 1E Creator 3D. I already runs FreeBSD (installed > via serial console): > user@ultra1$ uname -a > FreeBSD ultra1.kg4.no 5.3-BETA7 FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 #0: Sun Oct 3 > 11:24:02 UTC 2004 > root@bobbi.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC sparc64 > > The machine isn't very fast, but it works. > And today, I have gotten a "Sun framebuffer to VGA monitor" adapter, so > now I want to test the Creator 3D, to see if it will work. I discovered > that there is no output from the framebuffer as default (hey, I just > *had* to try), so I guess I'll have to do some work to get this set up. > Perhaps make a new kernel? > Keyboard and mouse on SBus-based machines unfortunately don't work under FreeBSD, yet. So you can't use syscons(4) or X on this machine at present. The ofw_console(4) driver will use the keyboard and the creator card via Open Firmware if you set "input-device" to "keyboard" and "output-device" to "screen" in the Open Firmware boot monitor or via eeprom(8) but this will be slow (should improve a bit if you compile a kernel with "option OFWCONS_POLL_HZ=20") and means no X.
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