Re: Using Sun monitors on an Indy
The PC-13w3 adapters aren't that expensive ...I got mines for like 19
bucks.
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 06:27, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Stuart Longland wrote:
> > I've recently acquired 3 Sun 13W3 monitors from my university (they
> > were throwing them out), and I was wondering if anyone has managed to
> > get these sort of monitors to work on either IBM PC or SGI hardware...
>
> For PC, you need an (expensive) VGA-to-13W3 adapter.
>
> > The monitors in question:
> >
> > - 1x Sun GDM-20D10 19" (which I'm told is very similar to the SGI 20D11)
> > - 2x Sun GDM-1662B 16" (One didn't work at all, the other appears to
> > work, but won't sync properly.)
> >
> > As I say, apparently some of the Sun monitors just magically "work" on
> > Silicon Graphics hardware, but it seems that these ones will need some
> > modifications. Anyone know of a document that explains this?
>
> Perhaps the SGI does sync-on-green, while the monitor doesn't?
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>
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