From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (IDENT:qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA14606 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 02:46:56 -0700 Received: from cc.weber.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bramah.tgate.weber.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA00492 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 01:54:06 GMT (envelope-from rfleming@cc.weber.edu) Sender: rob@bramah.tgate.weber.edu Message-ID: <38D584BD.A744CC3F@cc.weber.edu> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 01:54:05 +0000 From: rob fleming MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PA-risc Linux Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] 712/60 References: <38D2305D.697A44C7@cc.weber.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii List-ID: rob fleming wrote: > I realize that this may not be a question that can be answered from > the group, but here goes. > I bought a schools old machine 712/60 to be exact. I tried booting it > from home and found that my monitor doesn't work well with the graphics > cards initial settings. (Completely unreadable). I took it to work one > afternoon and it boots to the point where HPUX tries reading the > licences for the machine and dies. Does anyone know how to change the > graphics boot mode? I not longer have the option use the other monitor > at work to try and fix so I will take any suggestions. > > Rob > > ___ ___ __ | Name : Robert Fleming > / / / /____ (__)__ ___ | E-mail : rfleming@cc.weber.edu > / /_/ / _ \/ /\ \/ / | day : Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, WinNT, Novell > \___,__/__//__/__/ /__/\__\ | night : FreeBSD-Current, OpenLinux, Mandrake > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe: send e-mail to parisc-linux-request@thepuffingroup.com with > `unsubscribe' as the subject. I found a solution. The problem is that the boot rom (1.3) has an option built in to define the graphics mode to be supported while it works out what os or configuration to boot. "monitor X" is specified if you hit ESC before it boots the os and you then have the option of choosing 1 .. X monitor freequencies. They are then used from that point on when the machines is turned on. I tried the tab key but I guessing this has something to do with either x or the os which aren't on this machine. Aparently I accidentally nuked the drive some time ago and had forgotten about it. I tore into the case on this one looking for dip switches which were no where to be found. In fact this machine hasn't any jumpers at all the board is clean of then. Rob -- ___ ___ __ | Name : Robert Fleming / / / /____ (__)__ ___ | E-mail : rfleming@cc.weber.edu / /_/ / _ \/ /\ \/ / | day : Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, WinNT, Novell \___,__/__//__/__/ /__/\__\ | night : FreeBSD-Current, OpenLinux, Mandrake