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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">If the monitor/cable works with the CG6, and you have no output from the Creator, then it sounds like a Creator problem. I recently played around with Creator cards on my U1, U2, and U60 and didn't have to do any configuration to get them to work. <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I would try updating the OpenBoot firmware as it is free and relatively easy, then getting a new Creator to try it out. <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">mike</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Friday, April 12, 2024 at 02:46:30 PM CDT, Seth Morabito via rescue <rescue@sunhelp.org> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">Hello all,<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I was recently given a Sun Ultra 2 with a UPA Creator ffb framebuffer. I'm getting no video out, I'm afraid, and I'm trying to diagnose what's going on. Some things I've observed:<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">- The Ultra 2 has 2 200MHz CPUs, 768MB RAM, and is running OBP 3.11. All diagnostics pass. The NVRAM was dead of course, but I've hacked on a CR2032 battery and reset the original host ID and Ethernet address.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">- I'm using a DELL P1914S LCD monitor that is confirmed to work very well with a SPARCstation 2, an SGI Indy, and an SGI Indigo2 (and pretty much anything else I've thrown at it)<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">- I'm using a 13W3 to VGA cable with 12 jumpers that allow you to use it with various systems. Sun is one of the supported configurations, and the same cable works on my SPARCstation 2 with a CG6 SBus card. I've also tried a handful of other 13W3 to VGA converters I have lying around, with no success.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">- The system definitely sees that the Creator is present on the UPA bus, and has no errors when scanning the bus.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">- When booted with a serial terminal on ttya and without a keyboard attached, I can run the ffb diagnostics with "setenv diag-swtich? true" followed by "test screen", and the diagnostics pass without error.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">- When I remove the UPA Creator and drop in an SBus CG6, I *do* get video out of the CG6.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">- I got desperate and probed all of the pins on the Creator's 13W3 connector (without a monitor attached) and there's no signal on ANY pin, including the RGB coax connectors. No sync signals, nothing.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I'm left wondering if this is a cabling problem, a monitor problem, or a card problem, and I don't know what to try next.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Any advice would be welcomed!<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-Seth<br></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div dir="ltr"> Seth Morabito * Poulsbo, WA * <a href="https://loomcom.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://loomcom.com/</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr">rescue list - <a href="http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org</a><br></div></div>
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