[Gllug] Sparc Ultra 5 Oddness

[John Edwards]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:44:53PM +0000, Ian Norton wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I recently rescued two sun ultra 5's from an auction, both have hardly any
> signs of wear or use, one is a 360MHz version with 384Mb RAM and 2 9.1Gb IDE
> disks, this one works fine, its quite nippy etc,
> 
> the other is a 270Mhz version with 256Mb memory and 2 ide disks, I have got
> this one to boot successfully and can see stuff going on over the serial
> console, the problem is that it displays nothing at all on screen (ever) and my
> screen's little LED goes orange, green then yellow just after i switch it on (ive never seen it yellow before, orange is no signal, green is a good signal,
> 
> using the openboot thing ive managed to run the diagnostics and 'test video'
> and it reports nothing wierd, any suggestions? could this machine be running in
> some funny video mode?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Ian

Hi
Most Sun machines will only use the video output if the keyboard 
is connected, else they will only use the serial interface.

Do you have a known good keyboard connected ?


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