[SPARCbook] SparcLE and Solaris 10

[stephen price]

Hi Alicia -

I need more information - how are you making a U20
into a U40 - mboard complete swap or nvram swapout and
obp reload and cpu chip change or what process??

It sounds like you are trying to use the same video
card from the u16/u20 and grafting it onto the u40
series mboard - yes or no?

second issue may be the lcd inverter - it may be bad
if you are just moving the display panel from the
u16/u20 to the u40 chassis.

Lastly, I believe that the obp for the u40 series does
not support the u16/u20 video card.  I'm not a
Itronix/Tadpole engineer - so I'm not 100% on this
one.

regards
steve

--- Alicia Ladd <alicia at gosignal.com> wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
> 
> Do you know what the problem would be for changing
> out a mother board on an
> ultrabook IIi? for some reason when i take a u20 and
> upgrade the motherboard
> to make it compatible with a u40 it will not light
> the screen i tried a new
> video  card but that didn't work either.  Thanks and
> let me know i fthis is
> a quick fix or if you know nothing about it.
> 
> Alicia
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sparcbook-bounces at sunhelp.org
> [mailto:sparcbook-bounces at sunhelp.org]On Behalf Of
> stephen price
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 12:26 PM
> To: SPARC-based Portable Workstations
> Cc: bramwell at cuug.ab.ca
> Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] SparcLE and Solaris 10
> 
> 
> Unfortunately Itronix (Tadpole/General Dynamics)
> really does not seem inclined to maintain the
> operating system of their laptops.  The iso image
> you
> have has all of the Tadpole specific drivers etc,
> and
> in the case of the sparcle is definitely needed so
> that the video and ps2 style keybaord get set up
> appropriately.
> 
> I tried a couple of times to strip out the Tadpole
> pieces of the 03/05 iso, but never spent the time
> necessary to set up all the softlinks and build a
> new
> iso of a later version of Sol10.
> 
> Send me a physical address off list and I will send
> you a cd set of 03/05.
> 
> regards
> steve
> 
> 
> 
>
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