Message-ID: <3C684013.8070205@imagiware.com> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 17:05:07 -0500 From: Jerry Acord <acord@imagiware.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Elite 3d installation
Till Jaeger wrote:
>>Pardon my intrusion...but isn't the Elite3D UPA?
>>I have managed to change the primary display via 'nvalias' at the OBP
when
>>UPA and PCI grpahics cards are present...is that of any interest?
>
> yes - you are right. I didn't remember the OBP command but with your
hint i
> remeber it is a devalias/nvalias.
> My machine has an alias of "screen" which points to "/SUNW,afb@1e,0".
> This might be helpful.
Yes, the Elite3D is UPA. I'm not well-versed in PROM, but I did see
that the card was detected, that the "output-device" was "screen", and
that "screen" was something with "afb" in it (as opposed to the "m64" or
"pgx24" or whatever is was before I installed the Elite3D).
Hence my confusion... The output is set to Elite3D card, and when the
system boots the output is through the Elite3D... but when the graphical
login starts up (on Solaris) the output is switched to the on-board
PGX24. Same thing for linux -- startx launches on the on-board controller.
I only have 1 monitor, and I'm not interested in using the on-board
graphics at all. I only want to use the Elite3D.
I'm guessing there's a switch somewhere that involves /dev/fb#...
Something to tell the OS to use the new card instead of the old one (as
opposed to a PROM/nvram setting)...?
Something like
:0 Local local@console /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun :0 -dev /dev/fb1
in the Xservers file in Solaris...??
Cheers,
-- Jerry Acord
acord@imagiware.com
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