[KLUG Members] <sigh> Solaris help.

Adam Williams members@kalamazoolinux.org
05 Jul 2003 13:25:07 -0400


> I'm annoyed;  it's nearly 1:30 AM july 5, and I still haven't figured this 
> out.  I was hoping to solve this problem alone (and I think I did: meaning 
> I'm screwed) but I can't solve it.

Got a soldering iron, an SBus manual, an assembler, a prom burner and
alot of spare time? :)

> I have a Sun Enterprise 2, Dual 200 MHz system.  Right now, it is running 
> CDE/whatever just fine.  I've mananged to get everything I needed 
> installed (and what wouldn't compile from source, I installed packages 
> for) but I simply cannot get 'X' to go above a bitdepth of 8.  I'm really 

There was no standard video option for the given machine, so you need to
check what it plugged into the S bus. But...

"TurboGX (8-Bit Color Frame Buffer)"

I'll wager is what your going to find; since that is the only video
option Sun lists in the reference manual for this class of machine.