[rescue] Indy & LCD

[Carl R. Friend]

   On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Brooke Gravitt wrote:

> Anyone had luck booting an Indy with a Dell LCD (or any other, for
> that matter?) I have a 20" one that supports pretty wild configs, but
> can't get my Indy to boot with it attached. I don't have any tube
> monitors anymore to try. I have used this monitor on HPPA & SPARC
> boxen just fine.

   The Indy most likely wants to see a valid monitor identifier
code on the 13W3 connector.  I've had all sorts of problems in
the past even with 13W3-to-BNC cables that I had to chuck in an
"interposer" that fiddled the monitor ID bits in the cable (the
"interposer" in question came from a projection LCD).

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