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From: barnick@acadia.Kodak.COM (William M Barnick x73638)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
Subject: Re: cgsix problem
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.200301.7032@kodak.kodak.com>
Date: 5 Feb 91 20:03:01 GMT
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In article <556@opus.NMSU.Edu> sberger@nmsu.edu ( Steve Berger ) writes:
>We have a SUN 4  here with a cgsix video board.
>
>When first booted, it comes up fine, the screen colors get
>set to white on black.
>
>After suntools is used, and exited, the screen enters a weird
>mode.
>
>It's sort of reverse video, it's white on black, but the space
>bar whites things out as it goes along, creating white bars
>and such.
>
>
>Has anyone else seen this problem?  If so, is there any way to fix it?
>
It sort of sounds to me like you have a board newer than your OS.  The
cgsix seems to work best in a SparcStation2 running SunOS4.1.1.  We
once tried a cgsix in a SparcStation1+ with SunOS4.1 and had very
similar results to what you have described.

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