[olug] [OT] Sparc monitor

Brian Roberson brian at bstc.net
Fri Jul 13 18:37:45 UTC 2001


They are talking the other way around ;-)  e.g. sun video to standard
svga monitor....

> -----Original Message-----
> From: quinn at kalteisen.com [mailto:quinn at kalteisen.com] 
> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 1:35 PM
> To: Phil Brutsche
> Cc: olug at bstc.net
> Subject: RE: [olug] [OT] Sparc monitor
> 
> 
> Sun Monitors work well on PC's.  I'm on one right now doing 
> 1280x1024 running RedHat 7.1 with a Diamond Viper 550 card.  
> I bought an adaptor that goes from PC VGA to the funky 
> adaptor the Sun monitors use.
> 
> WindowMaker looks great at 1280x1024 :-)
> 
> Quinn
> 
> 
> --------------- Original message ----------------
> 
> 
> Quoting ktb <ktb at nixnotes.org>:
> 
> 
> 
> > I just bought a vid card for my sparc and an adapter to allow it to 
> > use
> 
> > a standard x86 monitor.  Well it isn't working and I don't 
> know if it
> 
> > is the card or the adaptor.  I suspect the adaptor.
> 
> 
> 
> Are you sure?
> 
> 
> 
> Sun framebuffers are fixed-frequency devices.  Unless you 
> have a multisync
> 
> monitor that can do 1152x900 @ 60Hz (or so), do not expect 
> the monitor to
> 
> work.
> 
> 
> 
> > I was wondering if anyone in olug land has a Sun monitor I could 
> > borrow
> 
> 
> 
> No monitors here.  All my Suns have the console on the serial 
> port. And a
> 
> PC with Hummingbird Exceed if I want X11 :)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Phil
> 
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