As part of my personal collection, I've recently brought a SparcStation Voyager back
from the dead (wellllll, it was coughin' up blood last night....). After replacing
the display (bad backlight) and the NVRAM (bad battery), I learned the machine bore Debian
Linux (and I didn't have the passwords). I dug out a Solaris 2.6 CD and ran the
automated install, and everything works! - except that it won't run the windowing
system. Early in the boot process it complains about not finding the driver for the
framebuffer.
I verified that the framebuffer is seen on the Sbus (as a bwthree); that devalias showed a
device called 'screen' looking to that framebuffer in the right place; that the
framebuffer's slot was early in the Sbus probe; and since there wasn't a driver in
/devices for bwthree, just on a chance I copied bwtwo to a file called bwthree.
I am coming to the conclusion I have one of two problems: either I really need a
particular driver for this framebuffer, or there's something I'm seriously
misunderstanding in the process. In the former case, I hope there is someone out there
who could share a file; in the latter, I hope he/she will share enlightenment. :-)
Thanks -- Ian
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