I own a Personal Iris, multiple Indys, multiple Indigos, multiple Indigo2s, a
Crimson, an Octane, an O2, and an Onyx. Only the O2 supports standard VGA
signals. The rest are all sync-on-green.
There is an adapter which attempts to filter the 13W3 sync-on-green and create
the standard VGA sync signals (in fact, I have the schematic somewhere in my
collection). I've tried it and the quality of the signal is poor (measured)
- and while it does "work" - it doesn't work well.
Since sgi systems have such wonderful color (even back to the Personal Iris),
it's almost a "travesty" to attempt to use anything but a good sync-on-green
monitor with with an sgi.
Sync-on-green monitors are not hard to come by - in fact, 20" sgi monitors go
for less than $95 here in Silicon Valley. I've seen 17" sync-on-greens going
for $35-$45.
Lyle
On Saturday 08 November 2003 03:42, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> On Nov 7, 19:04, Lyle Bickley wrote:
> > You've got to use a "sync on green" monitor with all 13W3 sgi
>
> products.
>
> No you don't. You can use separate sync if you connect to the right
> pins. This is true for Indigo, Indy, and Indigo^2, and probably older
> ones too.
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Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
Mountain View, CA 94040
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
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