[rescue] Ultra2 Creator woes

[Bill Bradford]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 12:14:51PM -0500, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> hey there everyone.  started this new job.  so far, going well.  excellent
> place, i love it.  so i got this ultra2 on my desk (2x300Mhz, 512MB ram)
> that i just dropped a creator3d framebuffer into (the kind with the keyboard
> port on it)

Thats not a keyboard port.  Thats a port for stereo-vision goggles.  DO NOT
plug a keyboard into it.

> now, i'm a sun guy, no doubt about that, but i don't ever deal with sun boxes
> that have video hardware in it.  usually enterprise stuff with serial consoles
> on them, so i'm not real knowledable about this video stuff.
> if i plug the keyboard into the system keyboard port the creator never comes
> online, but if i plug the keyboard into the creator, the creator comes online
> long enough to tell me that the system can't find a keyboard and is going to
> use ttya as console, and then shuts the creator off.

THATS NOT A KEYBOARD PORT ON THE CREATOR.  I hope you havent fried your
video card.

> now, i'm sure if i dig around i could hobble together a serial cable to use
> as serial console to install with, which should work i'm guessing, but i'm
> wondering if there is a "correct" solution, or a way to get this thing
> recognized as console.

Make sure you havent fried the video card by plugging a keyboard into it.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX