Subject: Re: My 3/60 keyboard
To: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
From: Rahim Azizarab <ray@tezcat.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 12/03/1995 18:28:32
On Sun, 3 Dec 1995, der Mouse wrote:
> Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 14:41:02 -0500
> From: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
> To: ray@tezcat.com
> Cc: port-sun3@NetBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: My 3/60 keyboard
>
> >>> I've just gotten a keyboard, mouse, and monitor for my 3/60. The
> >>> problem is, it still sends output to [ttya].
> >> Sounds to me like a blown keyboard power fuse. [...]
> > Nop, There is nothing wrong with your hardware. It is just the
> > EEPROM setting.
>
> Not quite. The EEPROM setting may need changing too, but if you reread
> the original posting, you'll see that
>
> >>> the light on the mouse doesn't go on and external loopback to the
> >>> keyboard fails.
>
> which to me says that the keyboard and mouse aren't getting power,
> which is why I said it sounds like a blown keyboard power fuse. (If
> the keyboard is plugged in, it powers up with the motherboard
> regardless of the EEPROM settings...at least if the fuse is good :-)
>
> der Mouse
>
> mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
>
lets assume that he has a bad. He should still get output on his monitor.
I noticed someone else wrote that the correct eeprom address for monitor is
1f. That is correct. For monocrome monitor, it should be set to 12 for
color to 16.
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