Hello All,
I have a Ultra workstation using a SUN 13W3 MONITOR MALE TO HD 15 FEMALE VGA/SVGA ADAPTER. I replaced a Sun monitor and put a PC monitor in its place. I know the PC monitor is working and the Ultra10 is putting out video. Is there some other configuration I am missing for this to work?
A tiny bit more information, please.
Where are you connecting each of these monitors?
Are you using a frame buffer installed to a UPA slot (the most common setup for the U-10)
and is the new monitor using the DB13W3-HD15 adapter from that UPA card ?
Do you have a frame buffer installed to a PCI slot (not common),
or are you using the integrated HD15 port and the new monitor is directly connected to it ?
In addition to that, can you remember what screen resolution you were using
when you had the Sun monitor on that workstation ?
You could be attaching the new monitor to an inactive video port,
or you could have the system configured to produce a resolution that's incompatible.
... or both ...
Hello.
I know a similar problem for the Elite3D graphics card.
The card's output is typically "composite sync" while PC monitors require "separate sync". The Elite3D switches to "separate sync" when doing the following sequence:
- Change screen resolution (includes frequency) to any other resolution
- Change screen resolution to a "vesa" resolution
Example:
- Change screen resolution to 1024x768x75
- Change screen resolution to 1024x768x60
Martin
Here is more information as to what I am doing:
My current Sun monitor is currently bad (video is tearing and hard to read. I tried the Sun monitor on another workstation an Ultra2 and the same problem).
I had an extra PC 19" monitor sitting around so I purchased a Sun 13W3 adapter to convert SVGA to VGA on my Ultra10 3D workstation. I know the PC monitor is working because I took it from a working system. I know the Ultra 10 video is coming out the video port because it works with the sun monitor. When I plug in the 13W3 adapter using my PC monitor the display says "No Signal or No Sync." So I posted this thread in hopes to find out if there is an additional setting that I need to change in order to make this work.
Can you telnet to the system from another computer?
If so, then you can investigate without needing to use its monitor.
Telnet to it as one of the user accounts you've created, then su to root.
(By default, direct telnet as root user is disabled, thus you connect as a system user.)
Do the following and copy the results of each.
Get back here with whatever gets reported:
# ls -l /dev/fbs
# fbconfig -prconf
OK Guys,
Here is the information:
#ls -l /dev/fbs
1f,0/pci@1,1/sunw,m64B@2:m640
#fbconfig -prconf
Hardware Configuration for /dev/fb
Type:single-buffered FFB2+
Board: rev2 (vertical)
Prom Information: @ (#) ffb2p. fth 2.6 97/10/02
FBC: version 0x3241906d
DAC: Booktree 9070 version1
3 DRAM: Mitsubishi, 130a, version 1
EDID Data: Available - EDID version 1 revision 0
Monitor Sense ID: 4 (Sun 37x29cm RGB color monitor)
Monitor possible resolutions: 1024x768x60, 1024x768x70, 1024x768x75, 1152x900x66, 1152x900x76, 1280x1024x67, 1280x1024x76, 960x680x112s, 640x480x60
current resolution setting: 1280x1024x76
Thanks for the help
Hmmm ...
The device instance directory ( /dev/fbs ) shows only the integrated ATI Rage chipset.
Your OS does not recognize the existence of any additional graphics cards.
Your current 1280x1024 resolution at 76Hz vertical refresh
is a valid output for that chipset, albeit it will only give you 8bit color (256 colors).
I'm confused by your earlier statements.
I thought you were trying to attach your PC monitor to some place other than the onboard graphics?
There is a snapshot of the rear view of an Ultra-10 at a third-party (non-Sun) web site.
http://www.sunshack.org/data/sh/2.1/infoserver.central/data/syshbk/Systems/U10/ component.rear.html
Note the caption for "Graphics card (not shown)" in that picture ?
Do you have any DB13W3 connectors there?
If there is a card installed to the UPA slot, you may need to
take it out and get the part number from its barcode paper sticker.
We'd only need the first seven digits, [url=http://www.sunshack.org/data/sh/2.1/infoserver.central/data/syshbk/Systems /U10/component.graphics.html]such as 501-xxxx or 540.xxxx[/url]
