New LCD
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I have got a new LCD monitor. A sort of: it is the old ViewSonic
VP2030b (it's 20" screen with 1600x1200 resolution and is is
Sync-On-Green capable).
For a long time I wished to get a better LCD for my old computers.
Because I have several SGI workstation which require the sync-on-green
and non-wide monitors, the possible candidates were somewhat limited).
As I have had the ViewSonic VP171 LCD for long time, I have green
searching for similar device with bigger screen.
The VP2030 is my second attempt to buy such thing on the eBay. The
first one newer reached me for some reason. There were problems also
with this one. I won the auction for a different (older) one but the
seller informed me that they have had an error in their system and the
monitor which I won is not available. They offered me a choice of
different ones (one wide-screen LCD and this VP2030). I selected the
VP2030. Until this point there was no problem.
Yesterday the parcel arrive. The post company informed me that the
package is slightly damaged. OK, it happens sometimes. But this time I
have found that there is a problem: not only the package was heavily
damaged but the monitor was also damaged, The plastics at the top and
at the back side of the screen were damaged and partially scattered...
Well, I glued the bigger pieces together and now the 90% of the
plastics are on the right places. Of course it does not look well.
Fortunately, the screen itself is mostly OK and it works. Yes, it's
more than 10 years old and the picture is somewhat yellowish. But the
colors on my SGI 1600SW LCDs are not better.
But for some reason, the screen has problems with some modern
computers. For example, it refuses to show anything when it is
connected to a modern notebook (with Win10). And when it is connected
via the VGA input, it is not possible to get better resolution than
1024x768 it it is connected to a Linux computer. It the DVI input is
used (even with the VGA-DVI cable) then everything works as expected.
Thus I can use the LCD with my Lenovo x61 laptop which works as my
secondary home workstation.
Now the SGIs... To be honest, I wanted such LCD because I wanted to
have a 1600x1200 monitor for my SGI Octane. The Octane with the
SolidImpact graphics should be capable of that (even the older SGI
Indigo2 is). But my Octane is not. It simply refuses to accept
existence of higher resolutions than 1280x1024...
So now I'm searching the WWW [1] and trying to find what is wrong and
if there is a proper *.vfo file for the Octane/SI and for 1600x1200...
Reference:
[1]
http://forums.nekochan.net
