Subject: Re: Getting monochrome from a VS3100 M76 SPX
To: Brian D Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
From: Tommy Smith <90675750@mobilpost.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/26/1999 21:26:09
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian D Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
To: Paul Apprich <psapprich@mindspring.com>
Cc: <port-vax@netbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: Getting monochrome from a VS3100 M76 SPX

> I've not verified it on the M76, but certainly on the M30 and M38 all you
> need to do is pull the color board and the built-in monochrome frame
> buffer is ready to roll.  There are enough similarities between the
> VAXstation 3100 models that I'd be surprised if the mono frame buffer in
> the M76 didn't work as in the M30 and M38.
I pulled out the color board on the m76 to get mono. (S3 switch off), but
then it is no output to the monitor.  What should actually happen?  Should
the output text be like normal when it boot?

...Tommy