[SunHELP] SUMMARY:64-bit driver module not found (revised)

Gallagher, Tim sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Tue Jun 12 12:12:38 CDT 2001


I have a revised summary, the CG3 was never officially supported on the Ultra-1. 

Many thanks to;

	James Lockwood
	Greg <gonufer>
	Casper Dik

> Tim Gallagher
> 
> ---
> The cg3 was never officially supported in the Ultra-1 and a 64-bit driver
> was never released for it (check the support matrices that came with your
> copy of Solaris).  A cg6 is the minimum supported card with a 64-bit
> driver.
> 
> -James
> ---
> cgthree is not supported in 64 bit mode.
> 
> 
> Casper
> ---
> > Just ran into this today myself.  According to a 'bug report' article on
> > SunSolve (BugID=4298824), the cgthree framebuffer is no longer supported
> > in Solaris 7.
> 
> That's not true, it's just not supported on the Ultra platforms.
> It was still supported in Solaris 7 on 32-bit pre-Ultra platforms.
> 
> The graphics devices EOL'd in Solaris 7 were:
> 
> 	- MG1 (bw2)
> 	- MG2 (bw2)
> 	- CG2
> 	- CG4
> 	- TC (cg8)
> 	- ZX/TZX (leo)
> 
> > They still include a 32-bit driver for the cgthree, but no 64-bit driver
> > seems to be included in the Solaris packages.  Upgrade the framebuffer
> > to a supported card, or run in 32-bit mode.
> 
> Because the cg3 isn't supported on any 64-bit platforms there wasn't
> any need for a 64-bit driver.
> 
> -greg
> ---
> 



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