Date: Sat, 14 Oct 95 06:43:49 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #28 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 14 Oct 95 Volume 8 : Issue 28 Today's Topics: BOOT PROM for Sun 3/60 Keyboard for CGONE sun2 color display? Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #27 +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > @net-kitchen.com | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Oct 95 01:58:29 -0500 From: Kevin Kim Subject: BOOT PROM for Sun 3/60 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hi all, I few weeks back I posted about getting the latest BOOT PROM for a Sun 3/60. A couple people replied. I lost all my email containing those replies. So if you replied to before, could you send me a email note. Thanks, -kevin - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 16:01:01 -0400 From: Craig Wasson Subject: Keyboard for CGONE sun2 color display? To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Flushed with victory after finding good answers to my first request on this email alias, I submit another. My sun2/170 has a CGONE video card. This is supposed to use a type-1 parallel keyboard attached directly to the CPU. But I don't have a type-1 keyboard... I do have a type-2 which attaches to a serial port. This was part of a CAD system sold by Sigma Design back in the mid-80's. It used to boot up OK via this color display and a serial keyboard. The previous owner of this system says everything worked until he tried to change the baud rate of a Systech serial port... he apparently changed the keyboard port. He then connected to ttya and tried configuring a new kernel. Whatever hooks were in place to allow the /dev/cgone display to use a type-2 serial keyboard are now gone. Does anyone know how to tell SUNOS 3.0B to use a keyboard off of a serial port instead of the type-1 keyboard on the sun2-100u processor for a CGONE display? (and mouse?) If I tell the system to start a login process for the CGONE0 display now, the ttya console keeps issuing "getty failed - sleeping" messages. I assume because the parallel type-1 keyboard is not there. Perhaps some magic in the /etc/ttys file could help here? The optimum case would be a kernel change so the entire boot process could use the cgone display and a type-2 keyboard. Right now even if I unplug the ascii console on ttya and power up, no text messages ever show up on the cgone0 display. At one time in the past - before I re-nstalled sunos on my new disk - I could force text to the display by things like "ls > /dev/cgone0", but this produces no display now. But I know the frame buffer is OK because I can run some color framebuffer demos, and load images to it using screenload. Thanks for any insight you might have! Craig - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Oct 1995 19:49:19 -0700 From: "James W. Birdsall" Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #27 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com >From: Craig Wasson > >Q 1: Is it possible to make the Xylogics 450 controller access > greater than 1024 cylinders on a SMD disk? I was going to say yes, but then I double-checked. The largest disk I've ever run on a 450 is an Eagle, which only has 842 cylinders. >Q 2: Do I need a newer version of SunOS? (any offers?) I can supply tapes of 3.2 or 3.5 for the cost of media or shipping. Don't know if they'll help. I also have 4.0, but it only comes on QIC-24 tapes which require a very recent ROM to boot from. --James - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************