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From: apollo@buengc.bu.edu (Douglas Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Sun-4 console/primary display problems.
Keywords: Miscellaneous
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Date: 27 Mar 90 05:43:28 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 99, message 5

Our sun-4/380's EEPROM was just reconfigured such that the primary/boot
display is on ttya (serial port A) instead of the color graphics display.
The problem is that I still need the color display & main keyboard to
operate (but not as the primary display).  Currently, the terminal
connected to ttya works fine as the primary console but the color
display/system keyboard is dead.  How do I get both to operate?  (Keeping
ttya as the primary display...)

In the mean time, I tried changing the EEPROM settings back so that I'll
be able to use the color display & system keyboard (value 12 at addr 1F).
Guess what?  The color display came up with garbage and the boot-up
messages were still going out to ttya.

Am I missing something here?

-Doug
apollo@{buengc, buengf, buvlsi1, raven}.bu.edu