[Sunhelp] monitor for Ultra 5/10 - can I use a regular PC monitor?

[Mike Meredith]

Hi

On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Kevin Fujinami wrote:
> 
> | I am planning to purchase an Ultra 5 or 10.  Can I use my regular PC monitor
> | for the ultra's?   I have a 19inch Viewsonic monitor.
> | 
> | or do I need a Sun brand monitor?
> 
> Any multisync monitor will do fine. It's all VESA/VGA compliant
> nowadays. You only needed "Special" Sun single-sync monitors with the
> older sbus video cards, such as the cgthree, cgsix, etc.

I can't think of any reason why you would *need* a Sun monitor for the older
framebuffers, as any decent multisync monitor should be quite happy to sync to
the signal put out by the older framebuffers. As an example, I've used a Vision
Master with a cgthree.