Re: Monitor Adaptors

From: Hactar (ebenONE_at_tampabay.ARE-ARE.com.unmunge)
Date: 10/07/03 

Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 21:08:22 GMT

In article <blv3ur$jju$1@hood.uits.indiana.edu>,
Gregory L. Hansen <glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote:
>
> I'm getting an old PC, an HP Kayak, for a Linux box, and I want to use a
> single monitor with both that and my older Mac. But the Mac and the
> monitor have 9 pin connectors

I think it's 15, 8+7.

> and the HP has a 15 pin VGA port. I have a switchbox with female VGA
> ports. So I'm trying to find cables and adaptors.

I went the other way, hooking a PC-style Sony Trinitron to my Mac, and at the
time, I had to have an adapter custom-made. It's a short cable, ~6" long,
cost about $25 in 1994 or so. Pre-made adapters weren't widely available at
that time (they are now),

The problem for you is that Macs sense the monitor's capabilities through
conductance between monitor pins. I don't know if they assume some defaults
when given no information.

> I've found VGA cables, and a DB9 male to HD15 female but I'm
> having trouble finding one that goes in the other direction.

Yeah, provide the information in the Mac -> VGA adapter (get one with DIP
switches or a selector of some kind).

But I think you might have to have the other one custom made. Custom Cable
in Tampa http://www.customcable.com/ did mine. 

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