Article 89123 of comp.unix.solaris: Path: matra.meer.net!tera.mcom.com!news.Stanford.EDU!agate!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!warwick!ral!usenet From: Ian Johnson Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: cgtwelve driver for 2.5 Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 09:48:00 +0100 Organization: CLRC RAL Lines: 116 Message-ID: <321435C0.17C4@rutherford.ac.uk> References: <4usgqf$821@news1.shell> NNTP-Posting-Host: grommit.cis.rl.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b7 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4u) This question came up in May this year, and the following unofficial and unsupported method of installing cgtwelve drivers under 2.5 was suggested by Stephen Barnes of UW-Madison. I enclose his message: ========= Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 12:46:07 -0500 Subject: GS framebuffers under Solaris 2.5 Howdy, I've had a number of questions about getting the GS frame buffer (cg12) working under Solaris 2.5, so a posting seems to be in order. At this time, please recite the standard disclaimer and pay careful attention to the bits about this being an unblessed configuration. Having said all that, the process was pretty straightforward. During the Solaris 2.5 install, your console will not function in the standard Openwindows mode. You should, however, be able to get through the text version of the installation. I'm not sure of the particulars here (it's been a while). The GS drivers are on the Solaris 2.4 distribution CD. In my case, that was a slightly older version of 2.4 (HW 11/94), but I believe this will remain constant. Specifically, they are on slice 0 of the CD in the Solaris_2.4 directory. For me this was: /cdrom/sol_2_4_hw1194_sparc/s0/Solaris_2.4 This directory contains all of the packages that make up Solaris. >From here, there are two ways to go: Note: this will require a few megs of disk space in / and /var 1) you can use swmtool diplayed remotely to handle the installation a) Set your Source Media to a Mounted Directory (if you're using vold) b) Set the Directory name appropriately (the s0/Solaris_2.4 directory) c) Select the Entire distribution cluster and double click to expand d) Scroll down the list until you find the GS (cg12) OS Support Files e) Install 2) you can use pkgadd to install the drivers a) Find the appropriate directory on the installation CD b) Locate the appropriate package for your machine architecture On our system there are three packages associated with the GS card SUNWgs SUNWgsow SUNWgsu SUNWgs and SUNWgsu are required, I'm not sure about SUNWgsow c) Use pkgadd to install the packages I'm not sure about package dependencies, but with a little luck pkgadd will get it right A reboot should get you up and running. Possible problems: This is not a blessed configuration, so there may be some very subtle bugs that arise. I've only tried this on one machine and it seems to work correctly. There have, however, been a few reports of the console display freezing (at times on the order of minutes) while all other aspects of the machine function correctly. This may be due to this little hack, or bugs in the CDE. I'm not sure at this time. Well, that's it. If anyone has any additions/corrections or can flesh out various parts of the procedure a little bit more, let me know. I'll summarize comments and repost the procedure if necessary. Best of luck, - ---Steve - -- Steve Barnet--System Administrator steve.barnet@ssec.wisc.edu UW-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center I'm not a rocket scientist, but I play one on TV (608)263-2268 Charles Stephens wrote: > > >>>>> "JP" == writes: > > JP> Can I get the cgtwelve frame buffer driver for solaris 2.5? If I > JP> have the 2.4 dristribution can I just copy the driver to /dev/fbs > JP> on my 2.5 machine? > > I just answered this question yesterday (It's a FAQ!)... > > No, CG12 (GS and GT) framebuffers were EOL'd (end of lifed) after 2.4. > This means there is no software or hardware support for these devices > from Sun > > cfs > -- > Charles F. Stephens = cfs@eng.sun.com > Software Engineer = "And thus spake the great lawyers: > SunSoft, a SMI Business = thou shall not speaketh for Sun or its > Menlo Park, California, USA = subsidaries, and disclaim all information > = hereforth, so they sue you, not us." > Spitting is strictly prohibited. = THIS SPACE FOR SUBLEASE, reasonable rates. -- -- "Nudist welfare man's wife fell for Chinese hypnotist from the Co-Op bacon counter" - News of the World headline Ian Johnson Internet: ijj@inf.rl.ac.uk CLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, World-Wide Web: Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX. http://www.cis.rl.ac.uk/people/ijj.html