Toronto store for Sun -> VGA adapter?

[Julian C. Dunn - Lists]

On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 18:39, Mike Kirk wrote:

> Thanks for the replies: yes, my Ultra 10 came with a Creator 3D installed
> (it shipped that way with the extra "Creator 3D" logo on the case). For now
> I've yanked it out so it uses the onboard ATI VGA, but I was thinking that
> if an adapter wasn't too pricey I'd like to use the Creator, if only because
> it has more memory to drive higher colour depths.

Here's a contrarian question: have you thought about just buying a Sun
monitor? They're actually quite nice (being Sony Trinitrons) and these
folks on eBay sell lots of miscellaneous Sun stuff (I bought my U10
there):

http://cgi6.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&include=0&userid=tec-comp&sort=2&rows=25&since=-1&rd=1

They are in North York and have local pickup so you can avoid the
shipping. My co-worker bought a pair of these monitors and he's using
one to watch television now :)

> It's working fine via ssh, but I'd like to tinker with it, including playing
> with the desktop. CDE may be ugly, and Gnome may be painfully slow (333 MHz
> CPU), but it helps me pass the time :)

I think you'll find the Creator 3D helps a lot with the speed issue.

- Julian

-- 
-- Julian C. Dunn, B.A.Sc.  <jdunn-wgAaPJgzrDxH4x6Dk/4f9A at public.gmane.org>
-- Senior Technical Consultant, OpenTrend Solutions Ltd.
-- Phone: (416) 669-3073    PGP Key: 0x2B9F9D3E
-- OpenTrend: Reliable, secure solutions to real world problems.
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml