[SunRescue] fb behavior on SS20

[ward at zilla.nu]

The machine is a decommissioned server (it's a station model, though), so it may
not have ever had the VSIMM.  Fun.

While I have many TGX cards, I wanted the nice 24bit fb, so I guess I'll be 
hunting down / investing in the VSIMM.

Thanks for all the help, folks!


Reagen

On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 09:19:08AM -0800, Lyndon Griffin wrote:
> Maybe wrong here, but even if you didn't buy the SX option on the SS20, it
> still came with the framebuffer onboard - you will just be lacking the VSIMM
> for it.  This is rectified by a)  getting a GX or other SBUS FB  or b)  buying
> the VSIMM and installing it?  This is the same topic that I was just asking
> about, so I'm putting together what I see with what I know and what I learned
> here the other day - I reserve the right, at all times, to be incorrect ;)
> 
> <:)  Lyndon
> 
> On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> > ward at zilla.nu wrote:
> > > 
> > > I'm getting some strange fb behavior on an SS20 I recently picked up.  I hooked
> > > up a kb (type6) and monitor to it, but the monitor never showed a sync.  I then
> > > connected a serial console, which now shows all output, but the kb is still used
> > > for input!  This even occurs in openboot.
> > 
> > This is normal, unplug the keyboard, and you should have all I/O be
> > re-directed to the serial port.
> > 
> > > 
> > > Ideas?  Help?  I don't know how to tell the size of the nvram dimm, but it looks
> > > a lot like the other DIMMS in it, and there's nothing in the little side-slots
> > > to the side of the main dimm sockets.
> > 
> > My understanding was that the FB-VSIMM for the SS20 took up one ram
> > slot, AND the little "extra" at the end of that slot.  Maybe you don't
> > have a FB?
> > 	Greg
> > 
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