At 09:46 AM 11/15/2000 -0700, you wrote:
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 09:52:46AM -0500, Cini, Richard
wrote:
> The workstation display card has a 13W3 connector on it. I
> understand that if you use an external display adapter, you can reclaim
some
system RAM by
disabling the built-in video. Is this true? If so, How can I
Hmmm, maybe, if they used some system RAM as VRAM. I'm not sure how
to do that.
Yes, the IIci uses system RAM for the built-in video. I don't think it can
be disabled, but you can set it to 1-bit color depth and the lowest
resolution monitor using the monitors control panel, which minimizes the
amount of RAM it would allocate for built-in video.
connect the 13W3 to the Hi-Rez monitor which has
a DB15 connector? I looked
in some catalogs, but there doesn't seem to be an adapter made for this.
Sure, those adapters exist; but I doubt a 12" monitor can do 1280x1024
(guessing that's what mode the card will be capable of, because 13W3 is
for Sun monitors and that's their usual resolution). I had to get
an adapter like that to use a PC monitor with a Sun. Fry's has them
but you can get much better deals on ebay. Just search for 13W3
and then read the description to see which direction it goes (because
most people want to hook a Sun monitor to a PC rather than the other
way around).
My IIci has that type of adapter, but mine is connected to the Apple
Portrait monitor (approx 600x800 pel), which I think is the only Apple
brand monitor with a 13w3. I'm not too sure what "13w3" is, but my monitor
has one gold male pin, 5 diagonal pairs female, and 2 gold male pins = 13
connections total. If my video adapter is the same as your "Workstation
Display card", then it is nothing special. My adapter is limited to 4-bit
color depth on the Portrait monitor. There are 8 empty IC sockets on the
card so I can get a maximum of 8-bit color depth (256 colors/greys) if I
had the RAM chips. I doubt this adapter has high enough frequencies to
support higher resolutions than the Portrait monitor.
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