On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 11:05:03PM -0600, Steve Siegfried wrote:
> Sun sells a "Sun Interface Converter" (Sun part number 370-2068-01, a.k.a.
> "X465A" -- list price $75) that lets you connect a Sparc box to a regular
> (PS/2) keyboard & mouse.
> More info at: "http://store.sun.com/catalog/doc/BrowsePage.jhtml?catid=3948"

I have saw a bunch of those at MPC last week. I doubt they were asking $75
for one.

The problem with those VGA adapters is that the Solaris terminal code gets 
confused and it wraps the lines in a weird mode, and some lines are not 
displayed at all.

As the old sparcs are pretty slow, you might not want to run X on them.
Just use a serial cable to have a console in case anything goes wrong.

florin

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"If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is."

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