Is that R, G, B, and composite sync, or what?
I don't want to be appearing to 'teach
grandmother how to suck eggs', but
how are you measuring the sync frequencies? Where are you measuring them?
waht instrument are you using? And so on....
Yep, RGB on seperate BNCs and H-V combined on another.
I'm throwing a LeCroy scope onto the SYNC output and using the cursors to measure
between the
regular pulses. I pulled the graphics boardset and found one jumper (ext/int) that was
set differently from Gerhard's model (thanks for the settings!) and I swapped that,
which raised the sync
frequency to 29.1 KHz.
The total waveform looks like: 29.1-29.4 KHz negative-going pulses, with 134muS square
negative pulses
occuring at 66Hz (looks like it might be stuck in 33Hz interlaced mode). there are
stronger negative pulses
in line with the ~29 KHz sync at 400.96 Hz, and on top of that there are 174muS blanks in
the signal (at the positive end) at 2.56 KHz
-----\/---\/---\/---\/ (regular pulses) ---|_____|--- (vsync pulse, 66KHz) \/---------\
/---\/---\/ (the 2.56KHz blank and strong negative pulse)
\/
not to time scale, and the strong negative pulse was the same duration as the regular
horizontal pulses. The strong negative always occured
after a blank, but not every blank.
The Display Generator board is crystal-controlled (meaning I should have pulled it out all
the way before pontificating)
There is a set of jumpers on the main processor board (IP2) which are supposed to set
resolution, with choices
between 60Hz non-interlaced, 33Hz interlaced, RS-170A, and European Standard. These seem
to make no difference.
The jumper to select master/slave mode on the processor made a difference (dropped the
sync to ~2KHz), so I know there
is a control connection between the IP2 and the graphics. I checked the DIP switches, and
they function. I suppose I could try
the system with no processor and see what the default sync rate is. I'm wondering if
the system (or parts) were set up for
genlock of some sort, and is expecting something it's not getting.
I'll throw the LeCroy on a Sun 3/160 and check the waveforms for comparison.
Sorry, but you might need to "teach grandmother how to suck eggs", this is both
the first computer video and the first scope I've
really dug into. I found out really fast that my NTSC TV book doesn't help much. . .