[geeks] I guess I'll ask again

Big Endian bigendian at mac.com
Mon Jan 28 13:46:43 CST 2002


>I didn't get an answer last time ... maybe got drowned out.
>
>I have an IBM RS/6000 7006 41T that I plan to hook up to an IBM P70
>monitor that was included.  The reason the monitor was included in the old
>equipment is probably because it is fine except that there is a blurry
>oval shaped area in the center of the tube.  Is there any way to fix this?
>It's a great monitor otherwise.

degausing?

>Secondarily I notice that hooking a Sun Sparc LX to it makes it crash.  I
>can't turn the screen off or adjust any of the controls, however the
>picture is fine.  I have to pull the plug and re-plug every time I reboot,
>however, since the screen reset makes it look like the scrolling text in
>Star Wars.

I have a machine at work that "freezes" a KVM switch.  Not sure why 
it does this.  It might be a similar issue.

>Third: Does a Sparcstation LX or a CG3 equipped SS2 work with a 13W3->VGA
>adapter, and any caveats?  Does the IBM 41T also work that way?  I am
>assuming the cable pinouts might be different (hence the onboard monitor
>computer crashing when hooked up via Sun 13W3 cable to a Sparc LX.

Yes, caveat: Suns use composite sync so make sure the adaptor for the 
sparcs are setup to allow composite sync to the (likely) seperate 
syncs on the VGA monitor.   Is the IBM Sync on Green, Seperate Sync 
or Composite Sync?

daniel
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