[SunHELP] Solaris 8 and ZX framebuffer

[James Lockwood]

On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Brian Hechinger wrote:

> i've got a ZX framebuffer that i'd _LOVE_ to use on my sparc20, however, it
> is no longer supported in Solaris 8. does anyone know what is the last version
> of Solaris that supported the ZX and could someone get me a copy of the drivers
> from said version of Solaris?  i hven't heard about the ZX in particular, but
> i know people have done this with other SBus stuff (older hme cards aren't
> supported anymore for example have reports of this working)

Solaris 8 supports all hme cards.

It does not, however, support the older be (BigMAC) 100baseT cards.  These
were only capable of half duplex and had some entertaining autonegotiation
bugs.

-James