[rescue] Anyone dealt with a SPARCle laptop with bad video?

[RichTea]

b

On 6 June 2013 18:30, Robert Novak <rnovak at indyramp.com> wrote:

> I'm willing to dig into that a bit... I did run a 'set-defaults' and
> 'reset-all' but it still acted the same.
>
> I thought about trying a graphical display, see if it reset anything, but
> when I booted the Sol9 DVD I got to the "choose a language" text prompt and
> couldn't get past it. Not sure why... might have just been dog-slow and I
> didn't give it enough patience.
>
> Will try to find the video settings and such... haven't done much with my
> Sun gear in a long time, but the laptop was hard to pass up, especially
> with wifi and a dvd drive built in. :)
>
> Thanks Earl and Paul.
>
> Robert
>
> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Earl Baugh <earl at baugh.org> wrote:
>
> > > > I finally got the PC133 ECC SDRAM for my SPARCle laptop from an eBay
> > > seller
> > > > in Israel, found a compatible power tip  for my iGo universal power
> > > supply,
> > > > and powered up the SPARCle. Alas, I got what looks kinda like
> > interlaced
> > > > video with missing lines on it.
> > > > [...]
> > > > https://www.dropbox.com/sc/poqs5m1wru8tt4f/eG_CDBUuv3
> > > > https://www.dropbox.com/sc/id0kj5w3grkf4wk/Tj_JPfeTuS
> > > > [...]
> > > > Anyone run into this before, and have any ideas on how to fix this if
> > it
> > > > can be fixed?
>


bI seem to remember seeing something like this before and it was memory
corruption causing it.
If you have more then one module try swapping them around etc...

bRitchieb
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b


> > >
> > > So, I _don't_ know.  But, I'll hazard a guess, since I've not seen
> > > anyone else pipe up.
> > >
> > > I wonder whether there's ribbon cable (or one of those circuit traces
> on
> > > Kapton film thingies) that's partially come loose, or needs to be
> > > reseated.
> > >
> > > I wonder also whether you need to set the video mode from the
> > > boot-monitor?  I.e., it's displaying a 8 bit mode when being fed
> > > 24-bit data?  This is PURE speculation but I've seen things like this
> > > with laptops in the wrong mode (the bad old days of Linux laptops).
> > >
> > > Maybe try to install, and see whether you can get the display into a
> > > mono or 8-bit mode?
> > >
> >
> >
> > You know, I was thinking something similar.
> > While I've not dealt with this particular model, I did have some RDI
> ones,
> > and
> > something like this happened with the wrong display mode from the boot
> > monitor...
> > or something similar to that.  I remember we thought the display was
> broken
> > but it ended up being a setting or driver..
> >
> > Earl
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