From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Feb 13 13:41:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33CFF406C for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 13:41:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 21468 invoked from network); 13 Feb 2000 21:41:46 -0000 Received: from useram74.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.134.246) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 13 Feb 2000 21:41:46 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA00509; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 21:41:28 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 21:41:27 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Josef Grosch Cc: Guan Yang , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [ot] SPARCstation with PC monitor? Message-ID: <20000213214127.A326@marder-1> References: <38A689B5.3C471A68@softhome.net> <20000213171144.A326@marder-1> <20000213105022.A3729@mooseriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000213105022.A3729@mooseriver.com> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 10:50:22AM -0800, Josef Grosch wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 05:11:44PM +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 11:38:45AM +0100, Guan Yang wrote: > > > I am considering purchasing a SPARCstation 10, just for the fun of it, > > > but I know absolutely nothing about Sun hardware. > > > > > > So: Can I attach a normal PC monitor to such a beast? > > > > Possibly. Sun monitors are fixed frequency. Also they use 3W13 > > connectors. > > This used to be the case. The SPARCstation 10 has a SVGA connector and one > can hook up a multisync PC monitor to them. > I think it actually depends on the graphics card installed. I'll check my Sparc10 tomorrow. It only has the standard graphics card (8-bit colour) and I'm sure it's got a 3W13 (or is it 13W3? I can never remember). Maybe the high-end graphics option, GX(?), uses an SVGA connector. > > Josef > > -- > Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 3.4 > jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses > -- Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? -Poster at LinuxWorld 2000 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message