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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?

Maybe you have a framebuffer which an fcode-ID (the code that identifies
the type of card to the bootrom) that isn't known to the bootrom in your
SS2? I've noticed that certain newer colour framebuffers won't work in an
SS1/1+ with older bootrom versions because the fcode-ID isn't know to the
bootrom. 

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.

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.

Can you give us the Sun part numbers (501-xxxx) of the two framebuffers?
These will help to identify what you have. 

Regards,

Craig.
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