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In <6hle6g$1mv$1@rose-garden.demon.co.uk> paul@rose-garden.demon.co.uk (Paul Rose) writes:

>I've recently tried to setup a Sparc IPX that I have, only 
>to find that the display is corrupt [1], and was hoping 
>someone may have come across the same problem / symptoms 
>before, and know what was wrong.

>Having turned on the IPX, it sounds as if it is booting, 
>the hard disk is werring away, the keyboard lights light, 
>the monitor remains totally blank (black). Then when it 
>does display something (~30 secs later), it is a 
>geometrical pattern of about four thick vertical sections, 
>each comprising of lots of horizontal lines a pixel or two 
>thick. I can't tell if these were in colour or not, as it 
>was on a monochrome monitor.
          ^^^^^^^^^^

What sort of monochrome monitor? The IPX has a *colour* framebuffer (a cg6
8-bit accelerated colour framebuffer to be exact) on-board, so I doubt you
will find any monochrome monitors to work with it.

Regards,

Craig.
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