Subject: Re: NetBSD 2.0 on SS5/70 with TGX+
To: Thatcher Hubbard <thatcher.hubbard@computer-er.com>
From: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/11/2005 17:17:08
> I've installed 2.0 on a pair of SS5/70s that I have, both with TGX+ cards
> installed and 128MB of RAM. These machines had done DNS for a company I
> used to work at for about a year. The 2.0 install went fine, but I tried to
> build my own kernel with the RASTERCONSOLE option selected in the kernel and
> the smaller font. The machine booted just fine, but the PROM text stays up
> and the actual "window" of the shell is a small square in the center of the
> monitor. It scrolls just fine, but the original boot messages show up
> behind it. I'd love to fit more text on the screen, and I'd also love to
> have virtual consoles. Can the wscons driver for SPARC do virtual consoles?
Try adding `option RASTERCONS_FULLSCREEN'. It should do what you want
at the expense of causing discontiguous text output at the moment that
the framebuffer driver takes over from the firmware.
-pk