[Sunhelp] Sparc 20 using monitor from a Sparc 2

[James Lockwood]

On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> Probably doesn't work because you don't have a frame buffer.  The SS20 has
> an onboard video connector, but by default it doesn't have the necessary
> hardware to drive it.  If you open up the SS20, it's easy to tell.  If all
> of your ram slots have the same length ram in them, then you don't have a
> frame buffer for the onboard connector.  If one piece of ram has a little
> extra "thing" on the end, and is in one of the "longer" ram slots, then you
> do.  

...provided that the extra "thing" has a small blue plastic cover on one
end over a chip, instead of a large yellow 3V lithium cell.  The slot
extensions can take both SX VSIMMs (used for video) and NVSIMMs (used for
disk write acceleration).

-James