Re: output-device ID?

[Hartwig Atrops <Hartwig.Atrops@arcor.de>]

Hmmm ...

Weird behaviour.

First. Lenny is installed on the Blade, text mode ok.

output-device now set to /pci@1f,0/pci@5/display@0

One monitor connected to the onboard VGA port, one to the additional PCI card.

PCI Card from x86 world.

VT420 Terminal attached to the serial port.

During boot both monitors stay dark - no signal. SILO prompt appears on the 
terminal.

After SILO took over, the onboard graphics is switched on, boot messages 
appear on that line - and on the terminal.

But: only part of the boot messages is displayed on that monitor, part on the 
terminal. I cannot say weather some of the boot messages appear on both lines.

In the end, login prompts appear on the onboard graphics and on the terminal. 
I can login via USB keyboard and via terminal.

The output of the PCI card stays dark all the time.

Do I somehow need to configure Linux so it uses the PCI card? I never had two 
graphics cards in one system before.

Regards,

   Hartwig

On Thursday 08 October 2009 22:10, Brian Thompson wrote:
> Hartwig Atrops wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> >> Hi Hartwig,
> >>
> >> The method that you're using is basically correct, but it seems odd
> >> to me that OBP is recognizing your PCI graphics card as simply "display"
> >> and there's no "@" character in the third section of the path
> >> "/pci@1f,0/pci@5/display".
> >
> > I misunderstood the diag-switch? output - I am not familiar with Sun
> > device notation.  show-devs has the answer: display@0 !
> >
> > Now I get the message "The selected output device has no write routine".
> >
> > What to do?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> >    Hartwig
>
> Hi Hartwig,
>
> I might be mistaken but I believe that means that your PCI graphics card
> isn't
> being recognized as a valid Sun graphics card by OBP. Although your
> graphics
> card might be supported under linux/sparc, you might still be stuck with
> using
> the Sunblade 100 onboard video as the console until you can get the machine
> booted into linux.
>
> Is it a Sun PCI graphics card or one that was re-purposed from an x86 box?
> If I remember correctly, early Sunblade 100's with the 3D graphics option
> were originally shipped with Sun Expert3D-Lite PCI cards, and then later
> on it was switched to Sun XVR-500 PCI cards. Trying to use any other cards
> your luck my vary... I'm not saying that it won't work, just saying that
> it's not
> something that Sun intended to work.
>
> -Brian