22 Oct
2007
22 Oct
'07
4:01 p.m.
On 22/10/2007 23:33, Ray Robinson wrote:
The Octane uses a standard PS/2 keyboard and mouse, so that's not
surprising. The Crimson uses a PC-compatible keyboard though with a
non-standard (to the PC world) DA-15 connector, but uses an SGI mouse
rather like the older Sun mice and not PC-compatible. Neither the
Indigo mouse or keyboard are PC-compatible, but you can make an adapter
to convert the protocols -- see http://rshockley.dyndns.org/indigo.htm
>> Can I
use a PC mouse/keyboard with that?
> You cannot. You need to use a SGI keyboard and mouse.
I have plugged a PC
kybd/mouse into a SGI Crimson and an Octane
and they seemed to work OK. Needed a special cable
so I used a Sun cable on the SGI monitor.
That would be a 13W3 cable. It may be worth noting that later version
used more pins for monitor ID, and used one or two pins for sync -- on
connections that use those, the Sun pinout is different from the SGI pinout.
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