[rescue] Wanted: Keyboard / Mouse and VGA Adapter for Sparc Classic

[Joshua Johnston]

Actually, what I saw was a popup ad for eBay on another site.  That's
what I meant to say.  Others have started reporting them too, but I'm
guessing they've only been doing it for a few days now.  I know that
there's a need for a special part when it comes to getting VGA displays
to work on a Sparc, but I've got a Sync-On-Green AOC monitor that worked
with the nice adapter a friend had on his Sparc 5.  

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org] On
Behalf Of Jonathan C. Patschke
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 7:34 PM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] Wanted: Keyboard / Mouse and VGA Adapter for Sparc
Classic

On Sun, 12 May 2002, Joshua Johnston wrote:

> I've got a few bucks I can afford to put toward getting a keyboard,
> mouse, and VGA adapter to be able to use one of my Sparcs headed.  I'd
> go to eBay for this, but since eBay started doing popup ads, I'm
trying
> to avoid the place as much as possible.

I haven't noticed any popup ads under any OS, and I'm a daily eBayer.
If
you're running Windows, you might have an Internet Explorer ActiveX
control installed that's doing the pop-ups.  Search your registry for
"vx2".  You should be able to safely remove any/all references to it.

Or, if you don't feel comforatable mucking around in your Registry,
download Ad-Aware (http://lavasoftusa.com/).  Ad-Aware is Good Software,
and it's free.  It'll gleefully point out all those lurking little
tapeworms and remove them for you.

I felt the same way when I started seeing popup ads on Google, but I
-knew- something was amiss when I started seeing popups ads on -my-
website.  Google, BTW, has posted information about seeing popup ads on
there as a FAQ.

> Does anyone have anything they're willing to part with?

I haven't had any luck getting a PC monitor to work on older SPARCs.  Be
aware that there are at least two variants of the "Unix<->PC Monitor
adapter" to account for the difference in synching between SGIs and
Suns.
So, if you get an adapter from eBay or wherever (that is, anywhere other
than from the knowlegable folks on this list), be sure that it's wired
for
a Sun.

--Jonathan