From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bob Drzyzgula Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 01:08:48 +0000 Subject: Re: Ultra 5... Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 06:02:31PM -0600, Alberto Brealey wrote: > > 3. Is there a way of adapting the Sun *old?* vga connector (15 or > something pin + 2 coax) to the traditional vgs *pc?* connector in the > ultra 5 (i got a sun monitor that i like, but we got an ugly as hell new > sun monitor with the 15 pin interface). The "old" connector is a 13W3. Most older Sun monitors would only work with composite sync (H and V on the same line). Some of the latest Sun monitors (still with 13W3 connectors, even) would work with seperate H and V sync (the VGA standard), but it would have to be pretty recent... like Ultra era at least. I do not know if the Ultra 5 will do composite sync, but I would guess not... it is an ATI Mach 64 video interface, I believe. So, *if* your good monitor supports seperate sync, *or if* the Ultra 5 supports composite sync, then you would probably be able to do it. If so, you can get 13W3 to HDB-15 (VGA) adapters from a variety of sources; one is L-Com (http://www.L-com.com -- I don't know if they sell internationally, but their website only lists an 800 number, bad sign). Merely having the adapter won't help if you can't get the devices to agree on sync. Actually, Sun should be able to tell you since they are all Sun parts. --Bob -- ============================== Bob Drzyzgula It's not a problem bob@drzyzgula.org until something bad happens ==============================