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Sabrh

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Mar 5, 1999, 3:00:00 AM3/5/99

Hi everybody,
I'm a student-immigrant and a newbie in Unix and related things, so,
please, if you answer, do not assume that I ve already know
everything....
I ve recently bought a SS20 / 2-55 cpus /64 ram / TurboXGX buffer
(STP3010PGA Bt 6t45blpj135 RAMDAC 695*9512). It came with a GDM 20D10
20' monitor (sun) with remote. I paid $1200 including shipment. I bought
for purely educational purposes only.
Now, my problem is that after I installed solaris 7 (and OpenBsd
before, but Obsd doesn't support 2 cpus), I have kind of blinking lines,
or waves on the screen. I can see and read thing without problems...
Well, until my eyes get tired of the waves.
I ve downloaded some .tgz from sunsite.unc.edu and among them is a
X11R6 - shoud I install it now.... Will it change anything. What's the
default shell on solaris 7, and what's the config file for changing
resolution and depth of colour? May be somebody could send me an example
of config entries - that would be really great!
Well, if you did not like my message, please, don't waiste your time
and don't send me any suggestions to read MAN pages. Be sure, I do.

Any practical advices or suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
Thank you, Alex

Mathew Kirsch

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Mar 9, 1999, 3:00:00 AM3/9/99

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Sabrh wrote:
> I ve recently bought a SS20 / 2-55 cpus /64 ram / TurboXGX buffer
> (STP3010PGA Bt 6t45blpj135 RAMDAC 695*9512). It came with a GDM
20D10
> 20' monitor (sun) with remote. I paid $1200 including shipment. I
bought
> for purely educational purposes only.

Not a bad deal, if I haven't been away from the market too long.

> Now, my problem is that after I installed solaris 7 (and OpenBsd
> before, but Obsd doesn't support 2 cpus), I have kind of blinking
lines,
> or waves on the screen. I can see and read thing without problems...
> Well, until my eyes get tired of the waves.

This is probably the monitor's fault. It may not be in perfect working
order. A Sun workstation and Sun monitor should produce a clear image at
all times, since the system is always in "graphics mode", even when only
text is displayed on the screen.

> I ve downloaded some .tgz from sunsite.unc.edu and among them is
a
> X11R6 - shoud I install it now.... Will it change anything.

If you've installed Solaris 7, you shouldn't need to install the free
X11R6. Solaris 7 comes with CDE. X11R6 is something you may want to do
in the future, but it's more headaches and confusion than a newbie like
you needs.

> What's the default shell on solaris 7

Solaris 7 includes Bourne, C, and Korn shells. Leave the shell on the
root account alone, but you can change the default shell for users by
executing "passwd -e" while logged in as that user.

> what's the config file for changing resolution and depth of colour?
> May be somebody could send me an example
> of config entries - that would be really great!

The turboGX is another version of the venerable CG6, which is an 8-bit
accelerated framebuffer capable of 1152x900 maximum resolution. You're
limited to 256 colors irregardless, and a maximum resolution of
1152x900. There are no configuration files; resolution can be turned
down in the PROM (at the ok prompt).

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