Solved: Re: trouble installing to sun blade 1500

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 02:17:11PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 01:16:09PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 08:21:34PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 12:59:15PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 12:41:37PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 10:51:30PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > I get to OK prompt, type "boot cdrom", but the process
> > > > > > > > > stops after a few seconds with:
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > 	jumping to kernel entry at 0xc0088000.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > You're using an unsupported framebuffer (see the release notes).
> > > > > 
> > > > > yes, I missed that, thank you
> > > > > 
> > > > > > This unfortunately isn't sufficient information and my Blade 1500
> > > > > > doesn't exhibit this problem. Could you please put the full dmesg
> > > > > > output online somewhere (this should be easy to capture when
> > > > > > using a serial console)? Can you boot to single user?

after upgrading to the latest firmware, I can load 8.0
to silver and red 1500 blades:

http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/freebsd/

Now my problem is graphics, or at least a text console.
It looks like I've this graphics card (Sun data calles
is graphics accelerator, but this the only graphics
device in my 1500 blades, there is no other):

	Option	Part		description:
	X3780A 	375-3153 	XVR-600 Graphics Accelerator

3D LABS 54-001047-001 XVR-600 64MB PCI GRAPHICS CARD

Anybody used this card with Sun?
Is this card really not supported at all, even for
text console?

If I can get nowhere with this card, any advice for
a card I could buy for Sun Blade 1500 (red or silver)?

many thanks
anton

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