10 Jan
2018
10 Jan
'18
8:56 a.m.
Yeah, I use a 13W3 adapter and a VGA Samsung SyncMaster LCD on my bench.
The adapter is generic and happens to work on both Sun and SGI machines (as
mentioned, this is not guaranteed).
Thanks,
Jonathan
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 7:03 AM, Jonathan Katz via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 7:54 AM, Rico Pajarola via
cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I assume it's just the screen staying blank.
Note that using an SGI
monitor
on a sun using a 13W3 to 13W3 cable will not
work. There's 2 ways around
it: you can either use a 13W3 to BNC cable connected to a BNC to 13W3
cable
to connect the monitor, thus disconnecting all
non-RGB pins, or you can
cut
off the extra (non-RGB) pins on either side of
the cable (I've
successfully
done that to connect SGI machines to SUN monitors
but it should work the
other way around too).
I may have gotten the SUNW system -> SGI Monitor thing backwards. There are
cobwebs in this part of my brain!