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cdewick@lios.apana.org.au (Craig Dewick) writes:

>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.

He probably means "Greyscale". Yes .. SUN made greyscale monitors that worked
off the colour cards .. I think they sold them as mono's (they worked on mono's
too) but I can't remember exactly as it has been a very long time since
we ordered ours.
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