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Cgfour from 3/60 on a 4/330?

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From: Jim Lick
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 21:10
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Hi folks.  I have a P4 cgfour color framebuffer taken from a Sun 3/60.  At
work we just got in a color monitor, but the graphics hardware and the
system it will go on won't be here for another month or so.  Looking over
the monitor I noticed the 4 BNC connectors, and a thought occurred to me.
Our Sun 4/330 has what appears to be the same type of P4 framebuffer
connector as was on the 3/60, except it has a mono framebuffer currently.
So I was thinking: is it possible to stick the cgfour into the 4/330 and
have a color monitor on it until the other system arrives?  (I know the
monitor is compatible, I just want to know if that really is a P4 connector
in the 4/330 and can it take the card and still work?)  From the kernel
config file it looks like support is there.  I'm figuring it is fairly safe
to try it, but please let me know beforehand if I am doing something stupid,
so I can save my time, or if you think it will work let me know so I won't
worry so much.

Thanks.

(PS- If Susan at APUNIX is reading this, we got the monitor!)

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From: jim@ferkel.ucsb.edu (Jim Lick)
Subject: Cgfour from 3/60 on a 4/330?
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