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using non-sun monitor with ultra 10
Name: KG Date: October 23, 2002 at 13:23:58 Pacific OS: Solaris 8 CPU/Ram: 333 M 512M
Comment:
Hello, I just bought an Ultra 10 which has both the UPA(13w13) as well as the HD-15 connectors. I tried plugging in my pc monitor to the HD-15 connector directly and that didnt work. I plugged in a sun monitor (at work) into the UPA connector and it worked. Why is this? I was under the impression that the ultra 10 supports std pc vga monitors directly (w/o having to buy/use the 13w13->hd15 adapter) since it has the hd15 connector built-in. I suppose that is not true then? Or could it be that the pc monitors i have tried do not support the hi-frequencies or are not true multisync? Thanks in advance, Ketan
Name: SunSparcHustla Date: October 23, 2002 at 13:40:40 Pacific
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same thing happen to me..it seems that only the better monitors will work with the sun boxs.i had about 6 monitors n only 1 of them worked(19" the best one i had)the other were 15".i also tryed it on a freind of mines dell monitor and it worked great.so ya i think it has somthin to do with the better monitors bein able to run @ high frequecy. hopes this heLps
SunSparcHustler
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Response Number 2
Name: Mark M Date: October 27, 2002 at 23:59:54 Pacific
Reply:
Yup, you need a monitor that can deal with the refresh rates. I guess you could try changing via a terminal with fbconfig.
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