Thanks to all who responded:
foster@bial1.ucsd.edu
Benjamin Cline <benji@hnt.com>
"MJGARCIA.US.ORACLE.COM" <MJGARCIA@us.oracle.com>
Michael Hill <Hill.Michael@tci.com>
Rick Brashear <rickb@psa.pencom.com>
reineman1@llnl.gov
Raymond Rodebaugh <ray@therad.rpslmc.edu>
Jose Luis Delgado <jdelgado@nexus.net.mx>
Original Post
>I am trying to swap some hardware around to get a couple machines
>functioning in what I am told is my desired configuration.
>
>I have taken a CG12 frame buffer board from a Sparc10 and tried
installing
>it in a Sparc20 which had a CG6.
>
>I tried a boot -r and received the error:
>
> NOTICE: Can't find driver for console frame buffer
>
>Is it possible for me to do this without a reinstall of the OS (I'd
really
>hate that). Don't even know where I'd begin to look. Thanks in advance
for
>any help you can give.
The first answer I received (even before I got my post back) gave me the
info I needed:
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 10:27:50 -0700
From: foster@bial1.ucsd.edu
To: drc@odo.amherst.com
Subject: Re: Unknown frame buffer
You probably are using Solaris 2.5 on the Sparc20, and an earlier version
on the Sparc10?? Solaris 2.5.X no longer supports the cg12 frame buffer
(GS or GT).
Dave
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
David S. Foster Univ. of California, San Diego
Programmer/Analyst Brain Image Analysis Laboratory
foster@bial1.ucsd.edu Department of Psychiatry
(619) 622-5892 8950 Via La Jolla Drive, Suite 2240
La Jolla, CA 92037
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Fri Sep 28 2001 - 23:12:02 CDT