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A friend of mine gave me some old sun equiptment that I wish to make use of.

He gave me a sun sparc 5 with 32 megs of ram, keyboard/mouse, cdrom drive
and an IBM p200 21 inch monitor for the system.

There was no hard drive but I found an old 1 gig sca drive in my leftovers.
I put it in to the sun and set everything up. He also gave me redhat 6.2 (i
think) for it as well. It boots to the cd and I managed to install redhat
with no real issues other than its really slow (110mhz system with only 32
megs of ram). However the optical mouse doesn't appear to work.

Now I am not sure if this is normal or not, but only 1 red light is lit up
under the mouse, it looks like ther eshould be 2, but only 1 is lighting up.
The mouse buttons are working but the mouse pointer doesn't move around at
all.

Does this mouse require a speical mouse pad or something or is it just a
dead optical that needs to be replaced?

Next question, Since this system only has a 1 gig sca drive, thats quite
small these days. I have a few spare standard ultra scsi 2 drives (lvd)
that I could use in an external scsi case. Will they work as the primary
drive so I can just remove the 1 gig drive from inside the case all
together? The drives are 9.1 gig fujitsui, 18 gig ibm, and 2 9 gig half
height ibms.

And last issue. I really really want to use this monitor as my primary
monitor on my kvm (standard vga ports). Its an ibm p200 21 incher. I went
to my local cable store and he let me try all sorts of sun 13w3 to db 15
adapters but nothing works. I found at ibm's website that the p200 is a
multisync monitor capable of being driven by standard vga frequencies, what
cable/adatper do I need exactly so I can use this with standard vga outputs
on my kvm?

Thanks for helping out a sun "n00b".

On Wednesday 19 November 2003 11:10 pm in comp.sys.sun.hardware Bo Snyder
wrote:

> A friend of mine gave me some old sun equiptment that I wish to make use
> of.
>
> He gave me a sun sparc 5 with 32 megs of ram, keyboard/mouse, cdrom drive
> and an IBM p200 21 inch monitor for the system.
>
> There was no hard drive but I found an old 1 gig sca drive in my
> leftovers.
> I put it in to the sun and set everything up. He also gave me redhat 6.2
> (i
> think) for it as well. It boots to the cd and I managed to install redhat
> with no real issues other than its really slow (110mhz system with only 32
> megs of ram). However the optical mouse doesn't appear to work.
>
> Now I am not sure if this is normal or not, but only 1 red light is lit up
> under the mouse, it looks like ther eshould be 2, but only 1 is lighting
> up. The mouse buttons are working but the mouse pointer doesn't move
> around at all.

One LED is non-visible infrared.

> Does this mouse require a speical mouse pad or something or is it just a
> dead optical that needs to be replaced?

You need the special mousepad, maybe your friend forgot to give
it to you. You can substitute a Sun ball-type mouse if you cannot
find the optical pad. All Sun mice are interchangeable.

> Next question, Since this system only has a 1 gig sca drive, thats quite
> small these days. I have a few spare standard ultra scsi 2 drives (lvd)
> that I could use in an external scsi case. Will they work as the primary
> drive so I can just remove the 1 gig drive from inside the case all
> together? The drives are 9.1 gig fujitsui, 18 gig ibm, and 2 9 gig half
> height ibms.

Should work, but you will need to label and partition them first.

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> One LED is non-visible infrared.
>
> > Does this mouse require a speical mouse pad or something or is it just a
> > dead optical that needs to be replaced?
>
> You need the special mousepad, maybe your friend forgot to give
> it to you. You can substitute a Sun ball-type mouse if you cannot
> find the optical pad. All Sun mice are interchangeable.

Actually - there are postscript file sout there that print a page of dots
that work as a poor man's mouse mat for Sun optical mouses.

Be aware that there are two models of Sun optical mouse, and they use
different pads.

--
Steven Hill

Here's a optical "mousepad"
http://www.obsolyte.com/sunFAQ/sun3mousepad.html

"Greg Sellers" <gsellers@dimensional.com> wrote in message
news:3FBCF04C.EB99AE62@dimensional.com...
>
> Here's a optical "mousepad"
> http://www.obsolyte.com/sunFAQ/sun3mousepad.html

Hey cool, now how do i print this to my ps printer?? I am using an hp
laserjet IIId with a postscript cartridge in it.

This would be though windows...

"Greg Sellers" <gsellers@dimensional.com> wrote in message
news:3FBCF04C.EB99AE62@dimensional.com...
>
> Here's a optical "mousepad"
> http://www.obsolyte.com/sunFAQ/sun3mousepad.html

Well I figured it out. I opened the adobe disller application directly from
the adobe folder and then I was able to use file and open to open the raw
pad.ps file (that i created from those ps commands in the above link).

It made the pdf file and printed great.

Now my question is this, should I cover this with a 8 1/2 inch by 11 inch
peice of glass (like what you would find in front of a picutre) so that it
would be smoother?
(I am at work so I can't test this right now)

"Steven Hill" <sjh@waroffice.net> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0311200938450.24100-100000@kerouac.projectcolo.org.uk...
> > One LED is non-visible infrared.
> >
> > > Does this mouse require a speical mouse pad or something or is it just
a
> > > dead optical that needs to be replaced?
> >
> > You need the special mousepad, maybe your friend forgot to give
> > it to you. You can substitute a Sun ball-type mouse if you cannot
> > find the optical pad. All Sun mice are interchangeable.
>
> Actually - there are postscript file sout there that print a page of dots
> that work as a poor man's mouse mat for Sun optical mouses.
>
> Be aware that there are two models of Sun optical mouse, and they use
> different pads.

Well just about 5 minutes ago, someone just gave me a nice Type 4 keyboard
and matching mouse and mouse pad.

But is this going to work on my sparc 5?? I thought that the sparc 5 used
the type 5 keyboards/mice?

Am I still up the creeek or is the keyboard compatible??

thanks again in advance...

Bo Snyder wrote:

>"Greg Sellers" <gsellers@dimensional.com> wrote in message
>news:3FBCF04C.EB99AE62@dimensional.com...
>
>
>>Here's a optical "mousepad"
>>http://www.obsolyte.com/sunFAQ/sun3mousepad.html
>>
>>
>
>Hey cool, now how do i print this to my ps printer?? I am using an hp
>laserjet IIId with a postscript cartridge in it.
>
>This would be though windows...
>
>
>
>
If you need a mouse pad I have a few. Where are you located?

Bill K7NOM

> >
> If you need a mouse pad I have a few. Where are you located?
>
> Bill K7NOM

Well someone actualy gave me a sun type 4 keyboard and mouse and mouse pad
but I am not sure if that wil lwork with my sun 5.

I am located in spokane washington though. I could use an extra mouse pad
if you could spare one though.

While forming in a straight line, "Bo Snyder"
<bobo_snyder@hotmail.com> wrote:


>Well just about 5 minutes ago, someone just gave me a nice Type 4 keyboard
>and matching mouse and mouse pad.

lucky you

>But is this going to work on my sparc 5?? I thought that the sparc 5 used
>the type 5 keyboards/mice?

they should work without problems ... i once tried a type 5 on an ss
10, then a type 4, then a type 4 on an ultra 2, then a type 4 on a
ss20 ... all worked.

>Am I still up the creeek or is the keyboard compatible??

the keybords should be compatible. as someone here said, even type 5s
identify themselves as type 4 keyboards ...
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