[2980] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Dave Broderick: Re: Sun Ultra10 and recent Athena release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Broderick)
Fri Sep 28 09:28:15 2001
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 22:24:42 -0400
To: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
From: Dave Broderick <djbroder@MIT.EDU>
Cc: avmaint@MIT.EDU
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Resent-From: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
We think we had a problem with the KVM switch, the switch where the PC and
the workstation share a common keyboard and mouse. When there is a (missing
keyboard) problem, the cpu's tend to beep madly at boot time. Bob from
Athena supplied a Sun keyboard, and now we're only using the KVM switch to
flip the local monitor (LCD panel) back and forth. The PC and Sun will have
separate kbds and mon's. Messy but reliable.
I will check to see if there are changes in the 54-100 and other locations.
I think that Solaris 8 not only may set the scan rates higher, but may also
mess with the pin assignments of the video output connector.
Anyway, the fix for 1-390 was to use a PC style interface box. So we have a
fix for the problem.
Dave B
>There are other classrooms with Ultra10s (1-150, 1-190, 54-100);
>have you checked if they exhibit the same problem?
>
>Also, I saw an email to hotline go by on Tuesday saying "the Sun Ultra
>10 in there (m1-390-1) won't boot, and it emitted a piercing
>high-pitched sound when I powered it on"; maybe you could follow up with
>them about whether this is some other hardware problem?
>
>--Abby
Dave B
(on his Mac)
