On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, John R. Daily wrote:

> Among the apparent causes of my problem (no screens found) is
> that the graphics devices in /dev are not configured.
> /dev/cgsix0 shows up in dmesg on a properly configured Sparc 5,
> but there is nothing comparable on the one which will not
> run X.
> 
> The device files are present in /dev, but nothing apparently
> has told the kernel how to relate them to the graphics card
> present in the machine.
> 

	The kernel will probe and reports devices independantly of
	what nodes are present in /dev (Other than needing a /dev/console
	in order to report them :)

	Are you running a GENERIC kernel on the machine? If the kernel
	config does not have the correct lines for the framebuffer then it
	will not be detected.

	Also - are you certain its a cgsix - if its a tgx then support
	might not be present in 1.2 - you could try booting a snapshop
	kernel from ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc/... and see if
	it reports anything different (download the kernel to /netbsd.test
	then from the boot prompt 'boot netbsd.test -s'

		David/abs

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