[SunRescue] BWTWO question.

[Tim Hauber]

rescue at sunhelp.org writes:
>Ok, I went by Fred's and picked up a couple of the mono-monitors 
>(one as a "back up" in case my main color one ever goes out...figured 
>it'd at least let me have a console during the time I would be fixing 
>the color one..) So, anyway, I tried hooking one of the monitors to my 
>"almost free" IPC I've been piecing together, and had some strange 
>behavior.  Basically the screen displays, but it's the display is...well,
>it's like a moving window in which the underlying picture can be viewed 
>thru.  This was similar to the output I saw when I tried to plug in the
>color monitor to the same adapter.  So, I'm wondering if the IPC 
>motherboard has an actually working bwtwo adapter.  I've got a line on 
>a real, real, cheap SBUS bwtwo card (which I was planning on picking up 
>as part of the backup-display situation I mentioned earlier).  Soooo, the 
>question is whether or not I can put this SBUS card in the IPC without 
>there being a conflict with the onboard adapter.  Anybody ever tried it?
>(It's all cheap stuff, but I hate blowing a card by doing something 
>stupid...)
>
>Earl
>
>P.S. Fred really does have a BOAT LOAD of those monitors.....

I stuck a cgsix in my IPC (which has fubar frame buffer on board) and it
worked fine.  My IPC built in doesn't even show a valid picture, it looks
like there might have been a picture there, but some kid picked up the
etch-a-sketch and shook it all to the left.

Tim