Toronto store for Sun -> VGA adapter?

[Julian C. Dunn]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Robert Brockway wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Mike Kirk wrote:
>
> > I recently bought a Sun Ultra 10 used with Gentoo installed. I'd like to use
> > it with a PC monitor, but I can't find any stores in my area that stock the
> > adapter I need (http://www.computerplug.com/adapter_13w3vga1.htm). I'm
>
> Hi Mike.  Your Ultra 10 has a 13W3?  Every Ultra 10 (or Ultra 5 [1]) I've
> ever seen uses VGA out.  Are you sure this isn't a SpaceStation 10 (SS10)?
> Sun dropped 13W3 in preference to VGA long ago.

Some Ultra 10's (like mine) have an add-on Creator 3D board in the UPA
slot, which uses 13W3. I'm pretty sure Sun is still using 13W3 for
accelerator boards.

> In any case, why not use a serial console and remote display [2] all your
> data from the Sun box to a display running on a PC Linux box (normally the
> console although it is not necessary).
>
> [1] Including the one I just looked at.
>
> [2] Using the X protocol.  It's capabilities seem to be poorly understood
> even in Unix circles these days :(

Re [2], I don't understand what you mean... how do you propose to have him
run display data over the serial console?

- Julian

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