[ale] linuxsparc monitor question

[Stephen F Nicholas]

That's funny....
We ran an experiment on my Linux 5.2 box with a Matrox Mill card.  Plugged
the 21" Sun monitor from my Ultra5 and guess what??  It worked.

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On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Armsby John-G16665 wrote:

> Thanks for the posts,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sue Bauer-Lee [mailto:sblee at tazmania.org]
> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 10:00 AM
> To: Armsby John-G16665
> Subject: Re: [ale] linuxsparc monitor question
> 
> 
> There are vendors that make PC video cards to support the Sun monitors. 
> In the past they've been a bit more expensive than a standard video card but
> they do exist. I have one but I don't think it has more than 2-4 megs of
> memory. I think the make is Photon, but can check this evening. I used
> one of my PC for a quite some time using this card. BTW - if I remember
> correctly, the card came with the BNC cables for MAC and PC and we were able
> to find a converter to 13W3 (which is more likely the connector type on your
> monitor).
> 
> On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 09:35:26AM -0500, Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
> > I have a sparc10 running linux.  Attached to the box is a 20/21 inch sun monitor.  Anyway to connect the sun monitor to an intel machine?  Is there an adapter plug??
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > John 
> > 
> > 
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