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Hello, I am using solaris 9 on my Ultra 10, I just found there is another M64 video card already installed at slot PCI 1, I thought this card should be much better then the default card, so I tried to switch, but seems I can't get it work.

I googled and tried the following approach, but apparently it did not work, the monitor just keep dark when I plug the cable to the new card. please hep

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You need to attach a monitor that will give you video. Then power on the system and stop at the ok prompt.

run below command and look for the path to your video card

show-devs

ex.. /pci@1f,0/pci@1/SUNW,m64B@1

then you need to run
nvalias screen1 /pci@1f,0/pci@1/SUNW,m64B@1

In the above nvalias command screen1 is just an example and you can name it whatever you want as long as it does not conflict with anything shown by the devalias command whcih is run from ok prompt also. Also you video card will not show up as m64@1 if it is not that type of video card. The 1 at the end is what slot you have it in so this also may be different.

then run

setenv output-device screen1

then run

reset

as the system resets move the monitor cable to the new card

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here is the prtdiag output result of my box

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bash-2.05$ /usr/platform/sun4u/sbin/prtdiag
System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 333MHz)
System clock frequency: 83 MHz
Memory size: 512 Megabytes

========================= CPUs =========================

Run Ecache CPU CPU
Brd CPU Module MHz MB Impl. Mask
--- --- ------- ----- ------ ------ ----
0 0 0 333 2.0 12 9.0


========================= IO Cards =========================

Bus# Freq
Brd Type MHz Slot Name Model
--- ---- ---- ---- -------------------------------- ----------------------
0 PCI-1 33 1 ebus
0 PCI-1 33 1 network-SUNW,hme
0 PCI-1 33 2 SUNW,m64B ATY,GT-C
0 PCI-1 33 3 ide-pci1095,646
0 PCI-2 33 1 TECH-SOURCE,gfxp GFXP


No failures found in System
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