Help - Installing Solaris 8 on E3000

Installing Solaris 8 on an E3000 I get the following message......
'can't find driver for console framebuffer'
the graphics card worked fine on 2.6 but doesn't seem to be recognised on 2.8
any ideas would be gratefully appreciated......
Neal

Hi,
Check your motherboard and other hardware devices are
supported by intel Solaris x86 or not.
Check your hardware compatibility list try this URL:
http://soldc.sun.com/support/drivers/hcl
Revert back.
Thanks & Regards,
Senthilkumar
SUN - DTSHello Senthil
I have contacted Dell for the motherboard model number, but they were not able to provide the number (strange)
The URL you gave, does not have my DELL OPTIPLEX GX400 listed as this is a relavitvely new model, however the older system in the same series are shown to be comaptible.
Chip set
Intel 850 Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI)/accelerated graphics port (AGP)
Data bus width64 bits
Address bus width
32 bits
Direct memory access (DMA)
channels
eight
Interrupt levels
15
BIOS chip
4 megabits (Mb)
System bus speed
100 megahertz (MHz) clock, 400 MHz data rate

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