[Suns-at-Home] SPARC 5 Video troubles and Sparc2 question
James
quinstar@yahoo.com
Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:34:27 -0800 (PST)
I bought a Sparc5 off eBay, and a friend gave me a
13W3 cable and a Sun VGA-13W3 adapter he had since
he's moved on to E450's. I have it hooked to a
Viewsonic 17G VGA monitor, and I can tell that text
comes up after POST, but it seems one or both lines of
synch are not working from the twisted look of the
screen. Is there something I missed in the cabling, or
is there something I have to modify in addition that I
didn't know about?
The frame buffer has TURBOXGX in large letters in the
center, and I have some other frame buffers if I need
to switch them out, but so far I get the same from
them as well.
As for the Sparc2's I purchased as well, I only have a
Model/Type 6 keyboard to go around, and in the service
manual it shows the error codes displayed for the
keyboard. If I take them at face value, it shows
memory problems, but if I take the labels of each LED
in its position on the keyboard (which is differently
arranged from the labels in the manual) then they all
trnslate into "Reserved." Which is correct, by the
actual label to label matchup, or from left to right
per LED period?
Thanks for any feedback.
James