Monitor Problems

From: Stuart Powell (SPOWELL@barr.com)
Date: Fri Jan 05 2001 - 08:24:18 PST

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Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 10:24:18 -0600
From: Stuart Powell <SPOWELL@barr.com>
Subject: Monitor Problems

    Hello, everyone.

    I am trying to setup an old SS10 with SuSE7. The good news is, as a
    complete newbie, I have managed to work out how to get the thing to boot
    from the external CD. However, and this is probably where my lack of
    experience with Sun machines will show, the display is all over the place.
    Obviously, the refresh rate is either too high or too low for the monitor
    to handle.

    I get to the OK prompt just fine when the machine comes up. But booting
    from the CD gives me a nice little picture of TuX in the top left corner,
    but all the text scrolls by like it's displaying out of sync. Yast2
    doesn't come up readable (apart from the top logo, which displays just
    fine), and neither does Yast1. It also does the same if I boot from the
    Solaris CDs.

    I have attached an NEC MutliSync XP17 monitor to the machine, using an
    adapter to convert the Sun connector to VGA. This is a cable type adapter,
    not one of the short ones with dip switches on it. Is there anything I can
    do to alter the refresh rate from the ok prompt so that the OS installation
    will work ? Will I just have to bite the bullet and track down a different
    monitor ?

    Thanks,
    Stuart.
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                     

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