[SunRescue] Obligatory SGI Monitor question
    P.A.Osborne 
    P.A.Osborne at ukc.ac.uk
       
    Mon Jun 12 02:56:55 CDT 2000
    
    
  
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 10:03:37AM -0700, James Lockwood wrote:
> Sun, as a general rule, does not use sync on green.  The monitor is
> multisync but may or may not be able to sync all the way down to 31.5KHz
> VGA (not important for a Sun).
> 
> Sun normally uses composite sync.  If you get or build a sync combiner to
> overlay the csync signal onto the green line then it will probably work.
> 
> The 13W3 pinouts for SGI and Sun are also different.
Hmmm,  my 19" Sun (sony) GMD20-??? works fine on both a cg6 in a 
sparc 5 and on my SGI Indy - havent tried it the other way round yet
as the Indy monitor is still at work.
--Paul
    
    
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