Ted Harding wrote:

Hi Folks,

In case there's anyone out there who's a wiz with a soldering iron (or knows about a suitable adaptor which could be bought):

I have an HP X-term monitor Model A1097C.

This normally connects to an HP Xterm box, which has a mere 16MB RAM which is insufficient for heavy X work (e.g. it can't take Netscape at all , and even 'gv' is only partially handled); it's only really suitable for light "xterm" work.

However, the quality of the display is superb, and I am wondering if it is possible to use it as the monitor for a PC (running SuSE Linux, he says quickly, to get this somewhat on-topic).

The signals are sent by a 3-core cable with three separate connectors at the monitor end, one each for Red, Green and Blue. The monitor syncs on "Green".

As far as I can see, there is no alternative connection possibility.

The other end of the cable fits the standard socket at the back of a PC video card. However, the signal lines are not what is required, and the "sync question" is the big one: you just get mush if you simply plug it into a PC.

If anyone has fudged up a trick to get this to work properly as a PC monitor, I'd be most obliged to learn the details.

With thanks, Ted.

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You may want to take a look at these pages: http://historia.et.tudelft.nl/+AH4-marcj/fixed_freq/ Btw, you can easily expand the memory of the x-terminal. I am using one right now (HP Envizex p series, with an A1097c monitor) running netscape and kde with a picture in the background. I used some old 8Mb simms from an old 486 machine to upgrade the x-terminal to 24 Mb. It uses standard SIMMS. Regards, Erwin de Beus -- ===================================================================== ing. Erwin de Beus Tel.: +- 31 (0)15 278 3248 Delft University of Technology Fax: +- 31 (0)15 278 1204 Faculty of Applied Physics erwinb@ws.tn.tudelft.nl Thermal and Fluids Science Section http://www.ws.tn.tudelft.nl Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ Delft The Netherlands ===================================================================== -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq