[rescue] Dell oops

[Mike Hebel]

Oh, and you need an adapter from 13W3 -> VGA or whatever the monitor 
has on it.

Those are on E-Bay.  I believe it would be 13W3 Male to VGA 15 Female.

Mike Hebel

On Jul 7, 2005, at 7:39 PM, Mike Hebel wrote:

> On Jul 7, 2005, at 7:24 PM, John Williams wrote:
>
>> Hi:
>>
>>     Dumb question...  can you get one of these Dell monitors to work
>> on a sun
>> box?
>>
>>     John
>
> Depends entirely on the box in question.
>
> Most of the time all you have to do is type the resolution you want
> from the openboot prom:
>
>
> setenv output-device=screen:r1280x1024x76m
>
>
> or whatever resolution and refresh rate the monitor will support.  If I
> can use an old Gateway monitor on a Sun U10
> then I don't think there'll be an issue.  The setup info BTW is
> shamelessly stolen from Bill's site:
>
> http://www.sunhelp.org/faq/FrameBuffer.html
>
> ;-)
> Mike Hebel
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