[rescue] Was about to buy a Sun 13W3 to 4 BNC cable

Big Endian rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Jan 3 14:37:47 CST 2002


>Will this work on an SGI Crimson?.  I would assume you connect RGB and
>leave the other one dangle.  I was, however, reading that this format was
>proprietary so I was wondering if the display is wired the same way on
>SGI's as Suns.

Its not but in this configuration it shouldn't matter.  The Suns use 
a special pin on the 13w3 connector as a composite sync.  SGIs use 
Sync on Green.  So all you need to worry about is the 13w3 on one end 
and the three (r,g,b) BNCs on the other.

daniel
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