[SunRescue] Changing screen resolution in solaris 8?

User Bobkeys BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak rescue at sunhelp.org
Mon Apr 23 11:52:00 CDT 2001


> http://www.sunhelp.org/faq/FrameBuffer.html

None of that worked.  All the resolutions listed I tried, and none
sync'd.  So, I swapped frame buffers out of the SS1 and into the
SS5, and it worked fine.

The monitor was the GDM1962, and the frame buffer that did not work
was a 501-2337.  The 501-1643(?) out of the SS1 did work.

Sol8 said the X server could not be started on display:0, and it
came up in commandline mode.  Trying to start X manually gave
a ``Graphics Adapter device /dev/fb is of unknown type''.
Show-sbus says it has a cgsix in slot2.

How do I correctly get X back up on the cgsix?

Thanks

Bob




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