SUMMARY: converting 3/200 to low res monitor

From: Mike Schmidt (mschmidt@unidata.ucar.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 03 1991 - 22:03:55 CDT


Posted question:

> I have a 3/280 CPU set-up for use with a high resolution (1600x1280)
> monitor and would like to connect a standard Sun low resolution
> 1152x900 monitor. The PROM users manual has an address offset for the
> EEPROM change and it notes that "a hardware change on the CPU board is
> necessary to complete a screen size change". Does anybody know what
> the required hardware change is???

All replys agreed that the 3/2x0 series CPU's can't toggle from high
resolution to low resolution. This option applies to the 3/60 only.

thanks to:

Kevin Sheehan <kevin.sheehan@fourx.aus.sun.com>
Mike Raffety <miker@sbcoc.com>
mark seiden <mis@seiden.com>

Mike Schmidt
UCAR/Unidata
(303) 497-8688



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