RE: [TCLUG:23287] Funky Fixed-Freq Monitors

["Austad, Jay" <austad@marketwatch.com>]

I remember the old 20" Sun monitors either required a special card, or some
wacky hacked up cable with resistors and capacitors all over the place.
Then you had to go in with a screwdriver, while it was on, and twist on some
screws 1/2 inch away from 30,000 volts.

So basically, you cut your hand all to hell stripping the cable, then you
burn yourself soldering radio shack parts all over the cable, and finally
you die a quick and painless death with 30,000 volts channeled up through a
screwdriver.  :)  (BTW, I never tried it, I just gave up and threw it away
since it was free in the first place)

Actually, I found a site a couple weeks ago that had 2 20" SGI branded sony
trinitron monitors for $350 each.  Graphite colored casing with the gold SGI
logo also.  G400, Xinerama, and these would make a sweet setup.

Jay

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Dier [mailto:dieman@ringworld.org]
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 11:42 PM
To: tim
Cc: 'tclug-list@mn-linux.org'
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:23287] Funky Fixed-Freq Monitors


* tim <tim@tneu.visi.com> [001030 23:06]:
> The video card I'm using is supposed to be able to handle
> sync-on-composite video.  (ATI All-in-wonder 128). 

You gotta tell the card to do composite sync (ive got a patch to tell
g200 cards to do it.), or find a vendor with a sync converter, 20$ or
so.

Going to get one of those and hook it to my gf's box.  nice cheap 19in
monitor! :P

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