Subject: Re: VGA hot-wiring (or, fooling a mac into thinking it has a
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Oliver Humpage <oliver@watershed.co.uk>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/01/2001 10:35:46
Dear all,

I'm posting this mainly for archive value (i.e. information only).

A couple of people have contacted me off-list with very helpful, yet
slightly confusing, advice. I'll summarise here.

A post a couple of weeks ago said to connect pins 4 and 11, as Randy
Beaudreault pointed out. Erik Winkler has also contacted me off-list and
said pins 7 and 10. I realised it all depends how you count it. Luckily,
Erik drew a little diagram:

 7
 |
0X000000
00000X0
     |
     10

(Drawn looking at the port)

Off course, counting right to left, that's 7 and 10, but zig-zagging from
bottom left it's 4 and 11. Erik also mentioned perhaps using a small
resistor (1 ohm or so) to connect the pins.

Hope that's useful for future newbies like myself.

Oliver Humpage.

-- 
Yea, and if It will be done, even in spite,
Then lend Thine hand to the masses,
Lest It be done incorrectly or woefully worse
By those not versed in the ways of the Dogcow.
    - Clarus