Solaris 8 2/02 Release Notes Supplement for Sun Hardware

U-Code Does Not Reload After IFB Driver Unloaded (BugID 4532844)

At the command line login, systems with Expert3D or Expert3D-Lite cards may be unable to start a window system or dtlogin.

Workaround:

  1. Remotely log into the troubled system as superuser.

  2. Stop all ifbdaemon processes:

    # sh /etc/init.d/ifbinit stop

  3. Start all ifbdaemon processes:

    # sh /etc/init.d/ifbinit start