Have installed XVR-100 graphics card into my new SUN Fire V240 (SPARC) running Solaris 10. 'prtdiag' reports the card to be installed and working, but when I plug the monitor into the graphics card I get no coherent output (white fuzz). Is there any configuration that I need to do in Solaris to get it working? I understand you'd use the 'kdmconfig' for this if you run x86, but what about for SPARC?
The graphics adapter should have been accompanied by a booklet of instructions and a CD with the necessary driver packages.
The Docs.Sun.Com web site has a copy of the documentation:
<a href="http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/Workstation_Product s/Graphics_and_Media_Accelerators/XVR-100/index.html" target="_blank"> http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/Workst ation_Products/Graphics_and_Media_Accelerators/XVR-100/index .html</a>
Those docs should give you all the steps you'll need to make the framebuffer work.
On SPARC systems, there is a generic command line utility of <b>fbconfig</b> to manipulate and configure framebuffers.
Use it as a starting point, remembering it may not have all the product-specific command switches.
( the documentation mentions that <u>pfbconfig</u> is the better configuration utility for this particular card )
Such commands are used as root user, then you'll need to exit all X sesions and restart them, for changes to take effect -- often faster to just reboot.
