[rescue] Sun GT Support in SunOS/Solaris?

[George Adkins]

> So I'm finally getting around to attempting to test
> the Sun Graphics Tower box that Dave McGuire
> gave me several months back...and I'm (as expected)
> running into troubles.  Dave was pretty sure that it
> worked, but hadn't tested it recently, IIRC.

Mine came up just fine as the console framebuffer when I plugged it into a 
sparc 2 (although I tore it down and cleaned the hell out of it before firing 
it up for the first time...)

>
> To the best of my knowledge I have a functional
> SBus card, GT external VME "box", GT-specific
> Sun monitor, and the connecting cabling.  

I hooked mine to a GDM1962B and a GDM20d10, both worked fine for me.

> my knowledge, the GT is supported by *some*
> versions of SunOS 4.x, and by *some* versions of
> Solaris--but I'm not 100% sure which.  I'm trying to
> test it on a SunOS 4.1.4 system, but the card
> doesn't seem to be recognized. 

The Solaris 2.5 "SPARC: Installation Notes" manual says at the start of 
Chapter 5, "EOL Statements" (page 37): "GT: The GT graphics device is no 
longer supported in the Solaris 2.5 operating system."

did you do a 'boot -r' and check your dmesg output?

George