[ale] linuxsparc monitor question

[Keith R. Watson]

John and Steve,

Actually you are both right. The older Sun monitors were only capable of 
several predefined fixed frequencies. The newer Sun monitors, newer being a 
relative term, are multi-sync and can be used on PCs. In fact I'm writing 
this on a PC attached to a Sun 21" monitor that came with a 13W3 and DB15 
cable. My Sun monitor at home is one of the old fixed frequency models. I 
looked into getting a card as John mentioned however, I could buy a new 
multi-sync 19" monitor for what the card cost. The other problem with the 
converter cards is that they are 2D only and have virtually no hardware 
acceleration. Considering  that they cost more than a Matrox G400 Max I 
didn't think they were worth it. If anyone knows of less expensive ones 
please let me know. I have several monitors I could put to use.

keith


At 11:17 PM 11/6/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>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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Keith R. Watson                        GTRI/AIST
Systems Support Specialist III         Georgia Institute of Technology
keith.watson at gtri.gatech.edu           Atlanta, GA  30332-0816
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