SparcStation Voyager framebuffer problem

[Ian King]

I posted not too long ago looking for a framebuffer driver that seemed to be missing from the Solaris distributions I have for my Voyager.  Well, I finally opened up the machine and found something quite unexpected.

I had assumed (as had others, according to statements) that the color and monochrome components (screen and framebuffer) would be physically incompatible, so it would be impossible to mix and match.  *Wrong!*  In fact, I found I have a color framebuffer, which was talking to the monochrome screen.  What's really strange is that OpenBoot seems to have created a new name - bwthree - to describe the framebuffer!

I don't suppose anyone has a monochrome framebuffer with which you might be willing to part company?  Or perhaps a color screen?  -- Ian

UNIX is user friendly.  It's just selective about who its friends are.
Ian S. King, Sr. Vintage Systems Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
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