[SPARCbook] LCD upgrade for a SB 3XP

Borgen_Gary gary.borgen at verizon.net
Sat Dec 20 00:41:11 CST 2003


Just thought I'd drop a note to say that I was able to upgrade the display
on my Tadpole Sparcbook 3XP.
 
The 3XP comes stock with a 640x480 display which was not adequate
(in my estimation) for X-windows or CDE.

I was able to swap in a display from a Tadpole P1000G, which has a 
resolution of 800x600.  The donor P1000G was one of three 100 MHz 
Pentium parts units I picked up on ebay for a good price (no hard drives, 
one good battery, two good displays, and other stuff).

It worked and fit perfectly.  The openboot prom monitor and Solaris 2.6 
recognized the display, and I now have a usable Solaris system.

Now to work on my RDI Powerlite Turbo 170.  Has anyone tried running 
Solaris 9.0 or Aurora Linux on a Powerlite?



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