[Gllug] Sparc Ultra 5 Oddness

[Ian Norton-Badrul]

On 2003.11.17 21:59, John Edwards wrote:
> 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 ?
> 
> 
Yep, the keyboard is a type 5 that works fine on the other box,
with the keyboard plugged in i dont get any video, and the machine 
still boots. (as above)

Ian

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