[Sunhelp] E250 and PGX32 video

[Steve Hatle]

We've got two new E250's, both with PGX32 video cards. At boot, the monitor
(Sun "Entry level" monitor) never lights, though the machine boots.
Unplugging the keyboard and attaching a laptop to serial A to watch the boot
shows a "screen not found" message along with the keyboard not found message
(expected).

I have the PGX32 in slot 0, Quad Fast Ethernets in slots 1 and 2, and slot 3
(the 66mhz, 3 volt one) empty. Doc seems to indicate that the PGX32 is a 5V
33Mhz card.

No joy looking at the PGX32 docs, or the E250 hardware docs. Nothing either
in SunSolve.

This is prior to installing Solaris 2.6, for which the PGX32 has a CD of
drivers, but shouldn't it at least function at boot as a text console?

I suppose the resolution could be too high, but the "screen not found"
message bothers me. I haven't tried putting the framebuffer in a different
slot, though I'll probably try that tomorrow unless one of you can tell me
what I'm doing wrong <grin>.

TIA

Steve