[wplug] howdy

[Tom Rhodes]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 10:29:10 -0500
"Vanco, Don" <don.vanco at agilysys.com> wrote:

> Tom Rhodes <mailto:trhodes at FreeBSD.org> scribbled on Tuesday, November
> 16, 2004 9:11 AM:
> > On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 08:38:41 -0500
> > "Vanco, Don" <don.vanco at agilysys.com> wrote:
> > 
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org
> >>> [mailto:wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org] On
> >>> Behalf Of Zachary Uram
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 8:09 AM
> >>> To: wplug at wplug.org
> >>> Subject: [wplug] howdy
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> Hi everyone,
> >>> 
> >>> The meeting on Saturday was great. It was both my first WPLUG
> >>> and LUG :)
> >>> 
> >>> I was wondering if the prior newsletters are archived online?
> >>> 
> >>> Does anyone happen to know what I need to hook up a Sparc IPX to a
> >>> VGA (non-Sun) monitor?
> >> 	Welcome!  You need an adapter for the 13w3 to VGA adapter - I've
> >> seen 'em on eBay for under $5.
> >>
> http://search.ebay.com/13W3_W0QQmaxrecordsreturnedZ300QQsorecordsperpage
> >> Z50QQsosortpropertyZ1 (impossibly retarded URL compliments of IBM
> >> WebSphere) 
> > 
> > I think you may also need a special video card.  Tsung Labs (sp)
> > at one point released a PCI video card (6000 or something) which
> > could be plugged into a 13W13 adapter and then plugged into a
> > Sun monitor.  FWIW, I ran a 17" Sun monitor this way with
> > RedHat 5.2 back in the day.
> > 
> > Now, some Sun monitors were made by Sony.  IIRC, these can be
> > plugged right into the 13W13 adapter and then right into any
> > video card.  But that is hear-say from one of the FreeBSD/NetBSD
> > Sparc64 port maintainers; I haven't tried it personally but
> > I have reason enough to believe he's right.
> 
> 	The original question was on using a Sun box on/with a non-Sun
> VGA monitor - this adapter is all you need.  It's really not overly
> complex - Sun, like SGI, does not use a "standard" synch signal - they
> send synch on green (I think) - these adapters have worked for 99% of
> the Sun boxes I've used them on.  I used to have to pay a butt-load for
> them, now they are cheap and prevalent.  All that being said, I've yet
> to see a vendor that will guarantee they work.

I think it's only SGI that does the sync on green.  I actually
think we have one of these adapters here at work which will
not work for Sun monitors but I believe it's being used
successfully with an SGI monitor.

-- 
Tom Rhodes