[SPARCbook] LCD upgrade for a SB 3XP

[John Appleby]

Hi,

Yeah I looked it up last night and saw it was different to the 3GX. I've not
tried Sol9 myself, but from following the ramblings on this list over the
last couple of years, it will install on the SB3 et al., but with no FB. So
by the same thread, you would imagine it to work fully on the 170. No fun
tools to bring the battery life from 3 minutes up to 5 minutes but such is
life.

It is probably a brave man to install Sol9 on a machine with < 128Mb RAM but
you clearly have a masochist streak in you :)

This list should archive itself: http://ohno.mrbill.net/pipermail/sparcbook/

John

-----Original Message-----
From: sparcbook-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:sparcbook-bounces at sunhelp.org]
On Behalf Of Borgen_Gary
Sent: 10 December 2003 03:14
To: For owners of Tadpole/RDI's SPARCbook series of portable Sun-compatible
computer systems.
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] LCD upgrade for a SB 3XP

John,

One of the things that sold me on the 170 was that it uses a
standard CG6 graphics card (on the mainboard itself).  The
P9000 was on the SB3 and P9100 was on the SB3XP and
SB3GX.

I have heard that the Turbo Microsparc II in the 170
gives some Linux installs fits.  I haven't heard anything about
using it on any Solaris above 2.6.

Thanks for the reply,
Gary

PS: Should we be posting this on the SB archive?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Appleby" <john at dnsworld.co.uk>
To: "'For owners of Tadpole/RDI's SPARCbook series of portable
Sun-compatible computer systems.'" <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 6:41 PM
Subject: RE: [SPARCbook] LCD upgrade for a SB 3XP


> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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