[nycbug-talk] sun ultra 10 console question

[Trish Lynch]

On Mon, 10 May 2004, Jeronimo Romero wrote:

>
> OK. So I borrowed a sun ultra 10 workstation. Installed bsd on it
> without a problem through serial console but I noticed someting
> interesting and I was wondering if anyone knows how to fix this.
> When I first got it and started playing with it I noticed that the
> system console displayed the console with extremely oversized fonts.
> Everything at the console seemed extremely blown up. First I thought it
> was the openboot firmware. So i went into the firmware and configured
> the rows and columns to be 34x80. reset the machine ... didn't work.
> then i reset openboot to factory defaults. then i changed my vga output
> to another monitor. nothing changed. anybody know why the system console
> could be displaying such a disproportionately large system console.
>

Neither of my sparc64 boxes have a monitor, the one is in a rack here at
work on serial, and the other doesn;t have VGA output (its an E250)

if you give me a few days I'll fool around with it, but I suspect the best
place to ask is on the freebsd.org sparc64 list.

-Trish


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