[SPARCbook] LCD upgrade for a SB 3XP

[John Appleby]

If my memory serves me correctly, the 170 has major driver impediments to
running on Sol9. P9000 isn't supported for a start, I don't think.

J

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From: sparcbook-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:sparcbook-bounces at sunhelp.org]
On Behalf Of Borgen_Gary
Sent: 09 December 2003 14:51
To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org
Subject: [SPARCbook] LCD upgrade for a SB 3XP

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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