[rescue] serial port for ultra 24

[Brian Deloria]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 09:25:19AM -0800, stephen price wrote:
>> at $work, the "unix" team has several ultra 24 workstations they have
>> "never" hooked up because 1) they don't have dvi-i capable monitors and
>> 2) they don't have serial ports.
>
> Shouldn't they just need different cables?  I thought a DVI-D or DVI-A
> cable would plug into a DVI-I port on the PC.

DVD-A, or DVI-I should convert down to VGA with some simple adapters.
DVI-D is a different beast as there's no analog you're SOL unless
you've a screen to handle this.