hello
I was picking up some old nubus equipment from a consultor who no longer
need the equipment, so I thought I'd find out what the parts were.
The consultor gave me what he thought was a thicknet ethernet card, which
is apparently junk (old) - nothing more than I expected.  It's free
equipment, anyway.
Well, that card turned out to be a video card, and this is how netbsd
looked at it during startup:
--cut here--
macvid0 at nubus0: Sigma Designs L-View
macvid0: 832 x 600, monochrome
--cut here--
Well, apparently the NetBSD system seems to recognize it, and that can't
really be a bad thing. One of the two problems I currently see is that the
nubus card has a 9-pin video connector - two rows in trapezoidal shape, one
with 5 pins and one with 4. I never have seen such a video connector (not
surprising - I don't have any experience with this). I called up some local
computer stores and they never heard of them either. What kind of connector
is this?
I have a monitor in my basement, which has the same 9-pin video connector,
but it looks like a tty terminal (24x80 maybe) monitor. Seeing the
resolution mentioned in the video card's entry during boot, I figured I'd
break either the monitor or the card if I attempted to hook them up. Then
again, the monitor might not be a 24x80 monitor at all. I don't know. Think
I should attempt to hook them up?
Also, I saw the 832 x 600 video resolution. Isn't that a bit wierd? I
thought it should have been either 832 x 624, or 800 x 600. A combination?
What kind of monitor would accept that resolution?
I don't know if this is because I do not have a monitor attached to the
card or not, but another screen isn't showing up in the MacOS Monitor
control panel. Is it supposed to?
thanks a lot for any help,
  - a

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