Thx.
I haven?t seen many cheap VGA->HDMI adapters. The cheap ones went the other direction.
I have been using widescreen displays with my Suns (using Solaris/CDE and OPENSTEP) for
some time. My last Sun-badged display was a widescreen.
Will look for Extron ones.
On May 24, 2020, at 22:05, Rico Pajarola <rp at
servium.ch> wrote:
?
I've had good success using various Extron adapters.
I'm currently using a RGB112xi to convert <anything analog> => VGA.
So far the adapter works as advertised with anything I managed to connect it to (various
HP/DEC/Sun/SGI/RS6000, including mono and SoG) to a cheap Dell monitor that definitely
doesn't understand sync on green. The adapter fully regenerates all signals including
separate H/V sync.
From there I would assume any cheap VGA => HDMI adapter should work (but I never had
the urge, because HDMI monitors also tend to be wide format which doesn't work very
well for classic computing)
I also have other Extron converters, but the RGB112xi is best for 1990s workstations. The
only thing I wish it had was a way to choose the color when the input signal is
monochrome.
> On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 9:53 AM Alan Perry via cctalk <cctalk at
classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> When I first started trying to use VGA LCD panels with my Suns (mostly
> lunchbox systems, all 4c and 4m desktops), I heard there could be a
> problem like that and stuck with a particular model Samsung that worked.
> Then I tried another one and it worked. And another. And another. I
> haven't encountered one (out of half a dozen) that didn't work.
>
> alanp
>
> On 5/24/20 9:29 AM, alan--- via cctalk wrote:
> >
> > I've had the opposite experience. I've been trying to find a 1U
> > pull-out keyboard/monitor/mouse combo for my E6500 rack. Most of the
> > VGA LCD panels complain about signal out of range on both cg3 and cg6.
> > The E6500 really doesn't need a video console, but it'd be nice if one
> > was tucked in there. Of course the weirdo Sun mounting rails in the
> > cabinet are yet another challenge.
> >
> > -A
> >
> > On 2020-05-24 11:16, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote:
> >
> >> Every flat panel display with a SVGA connector that I have had has
> >> worked with my 13W3-to-SVGA adapters. I have seen adapters that do the
> >> SVGA to HDMI part. I am asking if someone else here has figured out
> >> which one(s) work in this application.