[SunRescue] sun4/110 and ancient monitor
J. S. Connell
ankh at canuck.gen.nz
Sun Sep 12 01:53:38 CDT 1999
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Dr. Snock wrote:
> Hmm. If you haven't tried just connecting red, green, and blue only then
> do so. I haven't seen a 4/110 in a very long time, but it could have sync
> on green. It still may not work. I picked up a 13W3 to RGB BNC cable a
> while ago and tried it on a SPARCstation LX with a Taxan monitor but it
> did not work, although it did work on an SGI.
Bear in mind that Sun and SGI wire their 13W3 cables slightly differently,
as apparently do all vendors who use it. Or at least, that's what I read
at http://www.monitorworld.com/Cables/video_standards.html. The three
mini-coax pins are common, but that's where the similarities end...
--Jeff
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