13W3 to HDMI/DisplayPort

[Alan Perry]

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:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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>> 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.