[rescue] FS: IBM P202 21" black Trinitron monitor, suit RS6k (UK)

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 10:15:59 CST 2006


Sebastian Jaenicke wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 08:12:58PM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> [..]
> 
>>Indeed.  Mine works with PCs, Macs, SGIs, Suns, and RS/6000s.  I had to
>>use a modify a cable to get it to talk to an SGI, though, as SGI uses
>>some pins for monitor identification on which the P202 expects to see
>>synchronization signals.
> 
> 
> Details about the modification would be appreciated - I have both
> a P202 and several SGI boxen, but so far didn't succeed in making
> them work together.

The easy way is to attach a 13w3 on the end of a video cable, making 
sure to only attach the coax pins, not any of the other 10.

Peace...  Sridhar



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