[SunRescue] dual-head SS1 challenge

[Mike Nicewonger]

Try after booting, unplug the misbehaving monitor from the framebuffer then
plugging it back in.

Mike N
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul E Coad" <coad at sonic.net>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 9:38 PM
Subject: [SunRescue] dual-head SS1 challenge


> I have been trying to add a second fb/monitor to my SS1.  The first
monitor
> works without a problem.  It is hooked up to a dual-wide cg6.  But the
second
> one (19" grayscale (365-1154)) just displays very light bouncing
horizontal
> lines.
>
> After grepping the web for some specs on the monitor it appears to be
> 1152x900 at 76.  I have tried both cg6 (both single and double wide) and tgx
> fbs without any luck.  In fact the tgx seems to make the system not even
> get far enough to boot.  The prom level is reported as 1.1 on the boot
banner.
> I have tried making the monitor the primary display and using the setenv
> output-device at the ok prompt and the eeprom command described in the fb
> faq.  Everything results in wavy lines.
>
> I suspect that it it is a frequency problem, but I suspect that a
boot-prom
> update will be required.  I'm running 4.1.4 on this machine.
>
> Any suggestions or ideas?  Replacing this machine with a newer model
> (like a SS2) is possible if that is likely to help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --paul
>
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