adapter cable for vga monitors does anyone know who makes a cable or adapter that is wired according to apple s specs that forces the external output on lc s and the powerbook s and duo into a true vga style output signal the nec adapter does not do this since their monitors are multisync they just route the signal into the correct pinout but do not switch the macs output into vga mode do i have to make one of these or does someone already have one made up the following is the apple spec for the lc cpu vga cable adapter i m assuming that the powerbooks duos will work with the same adapter macintosh lc to vga the macintosh lc can supply a x vga timed signal for use with vga monitors by using an adapter cable the standard macintosh lc supports vga to colors and with the optional k vram simm the vga monitor is supported to colors note the macintosh lc supplies signals capable of driving ttl level inputs however some low impedance input vga monitors do not work with the macintosh lc to connect a macintosh lc to a vga monitor you need to make an adapter cable from the macintosh lc video connector to the vga monitor following is the pinout description for the adapter cable macintosh lc vga video connector pin signal name red ground red video signal green video signal green ground blue video signal blue ground hsync vsync hsync ground nc sense sense tied together vga monitors are identified by shorting pin to pin on the macintosh lc video connector the macintosh lc grounds pin on its video connector which results in pulling down pin and gives the correct monitor id for a vga monitor this message was created on mcw bbs a jointly supported by new orleans mac user group national home school user group user maccomw uucp the views expressed in this posting those of the individual author only
