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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Oddball Monitors Date: 18 Nov 1995 13:24:25 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <48kj9p$l2u@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <78741235wnr@falstaf.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Robin Birch <robin@falstaf.demon.co.uk> wrote: >Ok this is nothing to do with FreeBSD but this is a misc group and I >want to run FreeBSD on the box that I am building so: > >I have aquired a sun workstation monitor. This has four 50 ohm BNC >inputs, R G B and sync. Can I build something (small lump of logic or >similar) that will allow me to connect a VGA output to this?. I think you need an XOR gate merging both sync lines into a single one. If my memory serves me right, there are some video cards that are capable of running ``composite sync'', which is what you want. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)