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I did have a chip picked out from Maxim that looks like it takes in the sync on green and separates the two signals. In the end I got a $30 Sony LCD from ebay that works great.

@astouffer:
Could you give me some more information about this Maxim IC?
@everybody:
I am looking forward to mid of January to visit the other Indy.
If everything will be ok and I will catch the fish, there will be just one small diskussion about sense of a 20inch CRT in the living room.
Any ideas and arguments available?

Beside: My TV is neither SOG compatible,SOG tolerant nor SGI tolerant... what a surprise

Several of those SGI branded 20 inch monitors died on me. A few capacitors dried out and if you can still find one, a competent appliance technician could have fixed them easily but would have still charged more than they were worth. There is a list of SGI capable monitors on the wiki.
I have a HP P1100 which is working well on the Octane and Onyx2s, touch wood.

R.

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This is just another reason to figure out how to get it compatible to my "normal" equipment..
I'll digg into lower level of sync signals. I.e. if ther is no dc offset on green line and sync impulses are negativ, maybe a diode should remove them?

OTOH a mslll IC would be a nice solution too....to use my 24inch LCD.
Unfortunetly it is chrismis time and fortunetly I have 6 months old boy;-)
All in all not that much time for hobbies...

The Maxim chip is the MAX9540. I requested two samples and thats as far as things went. The chips only come in a TSSOP package and the datasheet recommends against breadboarding.

http://www.maxim-ic.com/datasheet/index.mvp/id/5230

It appears to separate the composite from the green signal. The solution may be as simple as using a blocking diode but I suspect a bit more may be involved like an opamp to change the offset. According to http://www.repairfaq.org/REPAIR/F_SyncG ... YNCGRN_006 the voltages are pretty low. The forward voltage of the diode might be too high.

You don't need to go to this bother - your monitor is picking up the separate sync just fine, so you only need to filter it out of the green channel. An L-C filter should handle it without a problem, and on the plus side you don't even need to power it.

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Or try to set the video mode and add the option '-sn', e.g.'/usr/gfx/setmon -sn 72HZ ':


But a lot of setmon options work only on a couple of the 'bigger' graphics (RealityEngine etc)

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Hi....ho
back in bussiness.
After picking up a complete Indy with original SGI screen, IndyCam and 4600uP I startet some investigations.
Unfortunetly the first Indy is brocken, at least the graphis.
It started with a slightly green color,after some reboots system is only producing some lines like a lost sync signal.
Now I started with the new indy and I see color settings like I missed for 10 years:-)

I am afraid that I have to bring both Indys together into one case...to get a running,fast system.
Now I have to take a look for a complete IRIX set 6.5. to bring up a clean system after repair job.

Later, Alexander

So far for the moment I want to give short update.
I have 2Indys
First one:
4400/200MHz/64GB RAM/GR3-XZ/IRIX 6.5.? (greennish output version)
Second one I picked up together with the SGI Monitor:
4600/133MHz/96MB RAM/4.??or 5.?? IRIX

There are two monitors:
SGI Monitor (the version with remot control)
cheap 19inch Monitor wth SGI adapter

Most of time I spend working with Indy No.1. With SGI monitor graphic output is much better but with a small overdriven green channel.
I.e grey ist not really grey but more tending to be a light green.
This effect was not comparable with the SoG behaviour without the SGI Monitor, but in comparison with the other Indy you can not ignore it.
Now I decided to switch frequency from 60Hz to 70Hz, which worked for two times rebooting the Indy.
Two days before I ended up with the behaviour descirbted inside my last post.
Even using the cheapo monitor shoes the same picture(failure) in green.
I tried to do a resetenv inside PROM monitor/Console but this did not change anything.
I will try to set back monitor frequency, using the monitor command.
Are there some hints from your side?

Thanks in advance
PS: The other Indy works fine, beside of a unknown Root password...

Update:
On one pic you can see the brocken output if x server is up and on the other one you can see the difference of video output of both indys.yes the first monitor works with indys together,in relation to first comments in my fred.Another confusing point is that both indys are fine in prom monitor and shuting down the indys brings back a proper screen before switiching of. setenv monitor l was not working...

(Update *some errors fixed)