Re: Console on 9000/425t with A1659A graphics

[Chris Hanson <cmhanson%eschatologist.net@localhost>]

Ping? Anyone have any suggestions, since it *does* look like the sti(4) driver recognizes the SGC graphics card? Is there a way that I can start the X server and tell it to use the card’s device node? (Even going back to the 1990s, I’ve never had to configure X11 to that degree, so I don’t know what I’m doing there…)

  -- Chris

> On Nov 17, 2018, at 11:12 PM, Chris Hanson <cmhanson%eschatologist.net@localhost> wrote:
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> I have a 9000/425t that included A1659A graphics in the SGC slot, and I only seem to be able to use serial console with NetBSD 8.0.
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> Booting the netbsd-GENERIC kernel via NFS, and using serial console, I see the sti(4) driver come up and recognize the 1280x1024@8bpp framebuffer attached via SGC, and it looks like wscons wants to use it (or is using it), but whenever I’ve tried to boot using local console I get nothing.
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> Any ideas? I’d love to actually get X11 up on this system. It does work fine with HP-UX 9.10 after all. ;)
> 
>  -- Chris
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