[rescue] screen not found - Ultra 10 is missing UPA card

Bill Bradford rescue at sunhelp.org
Sun Oct 21 18:02:04 CDT 2001


On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 03:08:05PM -0700, Brian Kinney wrote:
> BlankSo, I just spend a good sum of money for a used Ultra 10 system, only
> to find it doesn't have ANY UPA card, just the built-in VGA connector.
> Can I still make the VGA connector work without the UPA card?
> It's odd that it doesn't work from the start, given the motherboard has an
> ATI Rage II+DVD chip on it.  Maybe it "borrows" the UPA card's memory...?
> System is fully operational otherwise - accessing thorugh ttya and via
> network....

It should work just fine - the UPA slot is for an *add-on* or replacement
card; the onboard VGA port is PGX8 or PGX24 video.

Maybe try set-defaults in the openboot PROM via a serial terminal?

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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