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From: marra@samuel.enet.dec.com (Dave Marra)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Making a GPX/II grayscale ...
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.143151.398@e2big.mko.dec.com>
Date: 30 Apr 91 14:31:51 GMT
References: <1991Apr29.175820.18394@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu>
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Reply-To: marra@samuel.enet.dec.com (Dave Marra)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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>We have a color Vaxstation II/GPX that we want to turn into a grayscale
machine
>by swapping the VR290 with a VR260/VR262.  DEC Direct said that a BC18P
is a
>cable that will allow the attachment of a VR260 to the GPX/II.  Well,
we have
>this cable on another MVIII (of some sort), so I tried using it. 
However, the
>260 doesn't sync up correctly when attached to the GPX/II -- this
problem
>happens both under X and in dumb-terminal mode.

Simply use the same cable you already have, only use the GREEN line
for the video connection.

then, in your decw$private_server_setup.com file, be sure to indicate that
the machine is a gray scale machine...

$ decw$color == "F"
$ exit

						.dave.