[rescue] Upgrading video board in Ultra machine

rescue at sunhelp.org rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Aug 16 20:47:46 CDT 2001


On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:

> Hi! I am going to upgrade the video in my machine from TGX to Creator.
> Will the machine recognize the new board right away, or I need to
> reinstall any drivers. Any info will be welcome, I have never modified the
> configuration of a solaris machine before.....

Provided you didn't specifically disable the installation of the ffb
drivers, a reconfiguration boot ("boot -r") should pick up the new
framebuffer and the X server will use it.

-James




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