8 Nov
2003
8 Nov
'03
12:42 a.m.
On Nov 7, 19:04, Lyle Bickley wrote:
You've got to use a "sync on green"
monitor with all 13W3 sgi
products.
No you don't. You can use separate sync if you connect to the right
pins. This is true for Indigo, Indy, and Indigo^2, and probably older
ones too.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
8 Nov
8 Nov
1:07 a.m.
On Saturday, November 8, 2003, at 06:42 AM, Pete Turnbull wrote:
On Nov 7, 19:04, Lyle Bickley wrote:
Yeah, you don't _need_ a sync on green monitor, although you can use
one. On my Indigo^2, I made a little adapter that let me use a regular
VGA monitor that had sync on green. I only connected six wires through
- the three colors, and their associated grounds. This prevented the
monitor from getting confused by the other signals, and allowed it to
sync on green. It worked great for me.
Ian Primus
ian_primus(a)yahoo.com
You've got to use a "sync on green"
monitor with all 13W3 sgi
products.
No you don't. You can use separate sync if you connect to the right
pins. This is true for Indigo, Indy, and Indigo^2, and probably older
ones too. 
5:06 a.m.
I own a Personal Iris, multiple Indys, multiple Indigos, multiple Indigo2s, a
Crimson, an Octane, an O2, and an Onyx. Only the O2 supports standard VGA
signals. The rest are all sync-on-green.
There is an adapter which attempts to filter the 13W3 sync-on-green and create
the standard VGA sync signals (in fact, I have the schematic somewhere in my
collection). I've tried it and the quality of the signal is poor (measured)
- and while it does "work" - it doesn't work well.
Since sgi systems have such wonderful color (even back to the Personal Iris),
it's almost a "travesty" to attempt to use anything but a good sync-on-green
monitor with with an sgi.
Sync-on-green monitors are not hard to come by - in fact, 20" sgi monitors go
for less than $95 here in Silicon Valley. I've seen 17" sync-on-greens going
for $35-$45.
Lyle
On Saturday 08 November 2003 03:42, Pete Turnbull wrote:
On Nov 7, 19:04, Lyle Bickley wrote:
--
Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
Mountain View, CA 94040
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
You've got to use a "sync on green"
monitor with all 13W3 sgi
products.
No you don't. You can use separate sync if you connect to the right
pins. This is true for Indigo, Indy, and Indigo^2, and probably older
ones too.
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