[OT] The World is Yellow! UPDATE

[Andrew]

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 22:40, sloopy wrote:

> i didnt see what machine you are using but guessing by the fact you
> tried a Color Plus 14" i would say you are probly using a resolution
> adaptor... just remember not all resolution adaptors are created
> equal... usually the 4 switch variety dont work on as many monitors as
> 10 switch, or ones with a rotary dial and 4-6 switches... i have one
> here with 4 switches that i cant get two monitors to work for me with,
> but with my 10switch or my rotary/6 switch they work fine...

The adapter is a 'Universal Mac Video Converter Unimac(tm)82D' from
Total Technology. It has two row of 8 switches.

> as for the rasterops, it is possible a similar thing happened if it
> didnt have a mac specific cable with resolution pins set... (and just
> cause it has a DB-15 doesnt mean it is mac specific...)

I didn't knew that :). I know of only two types of video adaptors: One
is Mac (two rows, wide connector) and the other is PC (three row, tight
connector).