[Suns-at-Home] LCD on a CG 6?

[Andre van Eyssen]

On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Alex Carver wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I was reinstalling the OS on one of my old IPXes and had to dig out an 
> old CRT monitor just to be able to view the console.  Is there some way 
> to get an LCD working on this?  I was using a simple 13W3 to HD15 
> adapter for the CRT monitor but none of the LCDs I have work.

Geez, it can be done, but it's a bit of a pain. You'll need to get the 
sync lines wired up properly, the framebuffer configured to the magic 
resolution of your LCD and .. I'm not sure it's worth it for the IPX these 
days.

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