[Sunhelp] Re: Solaris 7 on SPARCstation5 troubles

Laurentiu Stoleriu sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Sun Oct 29 14:15:07 CST 2000


>your framebuffer is no longer supported in Solaris 8.  the first
generation GX
>framebuffers aren't supported anymore (i know, i have one) but the
newer ones
>are.  a TGX or a TGX+ goes for pretty cheap on ebay if you need one.

>you probably aren't ever going to get OpenWin running on this
framebuffer unless
>you downgrade to 7 or unless someone else has a better idea.


Yeah, now I know that I have a LEO ( ZX / TZX ) frame buffer. 
It's on the end-of-support list for Solaris 7. I'll look for a Solaris
6 around here or, if not, I'll return to the old Solaris 4.

This sucks!

Thanks,
LALI



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