SUMMARY: Driver for Console Framebuffer missing

folks

i had an E250 which reported the driver for the console framebuffer was
missing.  my original post is included at the bottom of this email.  the
solution was to load the Raptor GFX graphics driver and patches for Solaris
2.6.  the engineers currently using E250 did not  know anything about the
machine.  when i told them they needed a driver, they were able to produce
the cd for the Raptor GFX card.  the patches were easily downloaded from
SunSolve.

i'd like to thank the folks who responded to my post:

Adam Barclay [adam@cortexebusiness.com.au]
David Foster [foster@dim.ucsd.edu]
Moore, L. Bryan [LBMoore@scrippsweb.com]
Francis, Rick [Rick.Francis@Transora.com]
Mark Gosselin [gosselinm@netscout.com]


regards,


cathy

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Cathy L. Smith
Motorola		E-Mail: csmith4@email.mot.com
5555 North Beach St.	Phone:  817.245.7019
Fort Worth, TX  76137	MS:     TX14 / 4H


>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Smith Cathy-CSMITH4  
> Sent:	Monday, May 07, 2001 10:58 AM
> To:	'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'
> Subject:	Driver for Console Framebuffer missing
> 
> folks
> 
> i have an E250 running Solaris 2.6 with 296 MHz cpu reporting the error
> message:
> 
> 	Can't find driver for console framebuffer
> 
> can someone tell me where to download that from?  i've checked for the
> framebuffer FAQ's listed in the sunmanagers FAQ.  all the links are
> invalid now.  there are no links in the /dev/fbs directory to indicate
> what package or device was once there.  so far i've not found anything in
> sun docs, but that may be a problem with my search.  i've looked at my
> Solaris 2.6 5/98 cd's, but the driver doesn't appear to be on any of them.
> 
> just as a bit of background.  the E250 is in a test lab.  Solaris 2.6 was
> installed and the machine has been up and running since August of last
> year.  the test engineers decided to install Solaris 7 and to install and
> run a product they wanted to test.  i don't know how far into the process
> they got before they found out that the product is not support under
> Solaris 7. so they re-installed Solaris 2.6.  it's not clear when the
> console framebuffer driver was wiped out.  
> 
> thanks a lot for the help.
> 
> 
> cathy
> ---
> Cathy L. Smith
> Motorola		E-Mail: csmith4@email.mot.com
> 5555 North Beach St.	Phone:  817.245.7019
> Fort Worth, TX  76137	MS:     TX14 / 4H
> 
>