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In article <5g9obg$c86$1@wave.znet.com>, Jack Bailey <jjb@wave.zNET.com> wrote:
|In article <5g7dqr$g3m@godzilla.zeta.org.au>,
|Craig Dewick <craig@zeta.org.au> wrote:
|>In <5g73mo$atv$1@wave.znet.com> jjb@wave.zNET.com (Jack Bailey) writes:
|>
|>>I put a new (different) frame buffer card in a sparc 2 and now the
|>>monitor doesn't sync.  It's a sun card, although I can't find a model
|>>number for it.  I've tried two 17" sun color monitors and a sun
|>>monochrome monitor.  Any ideas on how to get it working?
|>
|>Another possibility is that depending on what you were using originally,
|>and what you've installed now, the kernel you are running (if it's not a
|>generic kernel, and you are running SunOS 4.1.x instead of SunOS 5.x.x)
|>may not be configured to include support for the type of framebuffer you
|>now have.
|
|There are no drives attached.  I'm just trying to get to firmware.
|
|>Another possibility which I've only seen once is that the combination of
|>framebuffer and monitor may not be using compatible 'sense' signals, or
|>the video cable may not include wires for the sense signals. I've found
|>this once when trying a Sun 16" colour montior with a non-Sun (known
|>working) video cable. As soon as I switched to a Sun-badged video lead,
|>everything worked, and the only thing I could think of was the non-sun 
|>lead didn't carry the sense signals through.
|
|All the parts are original sun parts.
|
|>Can you give us the Sun part numbers (501-xxxx) of the two framebuffers?
|>These will help to identify what you have. 
|
|Yes, the card is 501-1481018087 -01REV.52.  Another tag has SL7733 on it.
|The connector is labeled DBML-13W3SAG-21L9.


	That is a standard CG6 double-width Sbus 8-bit
	Color Framebuffer - it has only one raster size,
	1152X900  61.8KHz horiz., 66 Hz. vert.


	Your color monitors may be multisync such as Sony
	GDM-1962, or they may sync at 71.7KHz, 76 Hz. if
	they are newer models.  The Multisync monitors
	_should_ work, but expect surprises with older
	frambuffer revisions.  Try unplugging the monitor
	after the system seems to be up, then plug it
	back in again.


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