re svga monitors and centris the real story in article moyman jonathan ecn purdue edu mike moya moyman ecn purdue edu writes what is the real story here can i hook up any pc svga montitor to the centris internal video do i need to make my own cable if it doesn t not come with one has apple released a tech note with the pinouts for doing such the reasoj i ask is that it seems the prices for svga are lower than that of their mac counterparts first of all i wouldn t advise wasting your time with apple they ll treat you like an idiot and you won t get any answers a personal opinion the safest thing to do is match the svga monitor s scanning rates with apple s rates i don t know apple s video scanning rates but i use the micron xceed s rates as they re a good approximation about cables you just have to go out to someplace like fry s and get a few mac vga cables and try them out i have a viewsonic e and i use an nec adaptor other monitors may use other adaptors i also have a mac x adaptor that tricks system into thinking the monitor is an apple i need to readjust the vertical and horizontal sizes but it works fairly well just like everything else in life the right lane ends in half a mile ravi konchigeri mongoose leland stanford edu
