On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, James Waterhouse wrote: > Hello all, > I'm have a few questions I hope someone might be able to answer. I have > a 712/60 and I just tried to use one of my monitors on it but all I get > is a flashing led on the front of the machine. does anyone know what > this means? On the monitors with leds on the front, it makes these leds > flash insinchronize with the led on the front of the machine. > Also what are the restrictions on the type of monitor that can be run > on the 712/60? Is there a minimum size? I thought these machine were > capable of working with vga monitors (or atleast low end svga)? (I'm > trying to use a 15" but all it does is flash the leds. I also tried an > old ps2 monitor on it. I get the led flashing on the machine and a band > of repeated hp welcome screens (or something like that) across the midle > of the screen.) My problem would not be caused by having the 1280x1024 > upgrade in the machine would it?
Probably it is a synchronisation problem. Most HP monitors are fixed-frequency sync-on-green, while most PC monitors have separate horizontal and vertical sync. The HP Xterms which I posted about in another message last week are sync-on-green by default, though as I discovered they can be reconfigured to talk to a VGA monitor by a couple of key-strokes when it boots (I did finally find some software for these things too, they work great - but HP tech support doesn't even know they ever made them!!). If you can't find a way to blindly change the monitor settings on boot-up (or remotely) then you will probably need to find an HP monitor or some sort of `scan converter' box. Or you might be able to boot with a serial console (can HP boxes do that?). Good luck anyway. I'm still waiting for an HP-PA box to try out with Debian :-) - Daniel -- ****************************************************************************** * Daniel Franklin - Postgraduate student in Electrical Engineering * University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************************
