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recently got a hp visualize c180 and sinced it has a 15-pin vga connector i
promptly hooked it up to a regular monitor. Was i surprised! did'nt work,
just got some crazy lines all over the screen. What kind of monitor or
adapter do i need to get this to work with a regular monitor

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stewart allen wrote:
> recently got a hp visualize c180 and sinced it has a 15-pin vga connector i
> promptly hooked it up to a regular monitor. Was i surprised! did'nt work,
> just got some crazy lines all over the screen. What kind of monitor or
> adapter do i need to get this to work with a regular monitor

You got "crazy lines". That probably means: your monitor doesn't know
how to handle the synchronization (most likely sync-on-green, and about
1280x1024x60Hz or so).

Alex

stewart allen wrote:

> recently got a hp visualize c180 and sinced it has a 15-pin vga
> connector i promptly hooked it up to a regular monitor.

I really wonder what gfx Your C180 has since all gfx cards of these days had
EVC which looks similar like today's DVI...

> Was i
> surprised! did'nt work, just got some crazy lines all over the
> screen.

Well, You didn't mention the gfx card or the model of monitor You're using,
but this effect can be because the card actually is set to a
resolution/refresh rate Your monitor can handle. All cards that work in the
C180 do separate sync just fine so it't certainly not a
sync-on-green-Problem. What You need to do is to set the gfx to a resolution
Your monitor supports.

If You switch on the workstation watch the keyboard LEDs (the ones for NUM
LOCK, SHIFT LOCK and SCROLL LOCK). If the keyboard gets initialized these
LEDs flash up for a short time. When they flash up immediately press the TAB
key and keep it pressed. The machine now cycles through all available
resolutions/refresh rates and holds everyone of them for several seconds. If
the monitor is able to sync to one of these resolutions You'll see a message
stating to press ENTER to keep this setting.

Benjamin

stewart allen wrote:
> recently got a hp visualize c180 and sinced it has a 15-pin vga connector i
> promptly hooked it up to a regular monitor. Was i surprised! did'nt work,
> just got some crazy lines all over the screen. What kind of monitor or
> adapter do i need to get this to work with a regular monitor
>

I have a C360 workstation and found this page to be very useful -
http://playstation2-linux.com/sog.php

Luckily I was able to go through the contents of a storage room at my
place of work to find a monitor that worked.

I currently use an AST Vision 7L monitor.

Hope this helps.

Regards

John Goodwin

Johnny Whistler wrote:

> I have a C360 workstation and found this page to be very useful -
> http://playstation2-linux.com/sog.php
>
> Luckily I was able to go through the contents of a storage room at my
> place of work to find a monitor that worked.

I can't see the problem. We had several C360s on monitors that definitely
couldn't handle Sync-on-Green...

What gfx does Your C360 have?

Benjamin

On my B180L any svga monitor works.
At startup, B180L test all possibles resolutions if you press tab or space
(see hardware doc on HP ITRC for more details).

This worked flawlessly...thank you. I was able to get a resolution i could
read.

"Benjamin Gawert" <bgawert@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:2laapmFa93fjU1@uni-berlin.de...
> stewart allen wrote:
>
> > recently got a hp visualize c180 and sinced it has a 15-pin vga
> > connector i promptly hooked it up to a regular monitor.
>
> I really wonder what gfx Your C180 has since all gfx cards of these days
had
> EVC which looks similar like today's DVI...
>
> > Was i
> > surprised! did'nt work, just got some crazy lines all over the
> > screen.
>
> Well, You didn't mention the gfx card or the model of monitor You're
using,
> but this effect can be because the card actually is set to a
> resolution/refresh rate Your monitor can handle. All cards that work in
the
> C180 do separate sync just fine so it't certainly not a
> sync-on-green-Problem. What You need to do is to set the gfx to a
resolution
> Your monitor supports.
>
> If You switch on the workstation watch the keyboard LEDs (the ones for NUM
> LOCK, SHIFT LOCK and SCROLL LOCK). If the keyboard gets initialized these
> LEDs flash up for a short time. When they flash up immediately press the
TAB
> key and keep it pressed. The machine now cycles through all available
> resolutions/refresh rates and holds everyone of them for several seconds.
If
> the monitor is able to sync to one of these resolutions You'll see a
message
> stating to press ENTER to keep this setting.
>
> Benjamin
>
>

Benjamin Gawert wrote:
> Johnny Whistler wrote:
>
>
>>I have a C360 workstation and found this page to be very useful -
>>http://playstation2-linux.com/sog.php
>>
>>Luckily I was able to go through the contents of a storage room at my
>>place of work to find a monitor that worked.
>
>
> I can't see the problem. We had several C360s on monitors that definitely
> couldn't handle Sync-on-Green...
>
> What gfx does Your C360 have?
>
> Benjamin
>
>

Well to be honest I'm not sure exactly (as I am posting from work) but
when I purchased it, I opted for an FX4 or something along those lines.
I believe the FX6 was the 'top' graphics card.

My Compaq monitor failed to display anything other than crazy lines
skimming across the screen, on any resolution offered by pressing TAB.

Plugged in the AST Vision 7l and all was OK. Superb stuff, now I have
Gnome running fine. Makes me feel more at home now, since I am used to a
Linux Mandrake set up ;-)

regards

John Goodwin

Johnny Whistler wrote:

> Well to be honest I'm not sure exactly (as I am posting from work) but
> when I purchased it, I opted for an FX4 or something along those
> lines. I believe the FX6 was the 'top' graphics card.

Well, all the FX-Series gfx card do standard sync (separate sync) and work
with any standard monitor...

> My Compaq monitor failed to display anything other than crazy lines
> skimming across the screen, on any resolution offered by pressing TAB.

Hard to say from distance, maybe Your monitor just had another problem that
wasn't visible.

> Plugged in the AST Vision 7l and all was OK. Superb stuff, now I have
> Gnome running fine. Makes me feel more at home now, since I am used
> to a Linux Mandrake set up ;-)

I assume You have HP-UX running with GNOME. What version of GNOME do You
use? The Ximian GNOME 1.4 that's downloadable from the HP-Website?

I once tried the Ximian GNOME from HP but it felt a bit empty. And I had
problems with the command line login function of the login window. Would be
great if there would be a working(!) port of a current KDE or GNOME (one
without the useless linux options like laptop powermanagement) for HP-UX but
sadly I haven't found one.

But then, I also tried GNOME on IBM AIX 5.2 which comes with the operating
system. Doesn't work at all...

Benjamin