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i know the cablesonline cable are still available, what i meant was, is there any others which may be better?
i have seen people using the short stubby 13w3 to vga adapters on their sgi in pictures they post online.
on ebay all of these stubby ones are listed as SUN though, which people here have been saying to avoid.
also many people on this forum have said they own a custom adapter made by michaelpastrasthegreat from ebay (he no longer sells them).
i am thinking perhaps the picture quality is better if it transitions into digital signal quicker with the stubby kind?

yes widescreen wasn't popular yet in early 2000s, but it did exist.
the sgi website shows the supported modes, some are for widescreen.
https://web.archive.org/web/200106270401...tions.html

1920x1200 at 75Hz is listed by SGI as an "additional display resolution" for v8/v10/v12.
it is not listed for use on v6 officially though :( and yet 1600x1024 at 83Hz is...
makes me think that maybe sgi just omitted some mode support for marketing reasons rather than technical reasons.

but also, the preterhuman site says this:

Modern LCD monitors that don't work well with the CRT-targeted vfo-microcode supplied by SGI may see improvement if used with a format that includes reduced blanking. Reduced blanking lowers display format overhead needed to allow CRT screen redraws, overhead that doesn't benefit and may adversely affect LCD monitors. Any LCD monitor new enough to take advantage of reduced blanking may benefit when using a custom .vfo/.sdb file.

Reduced blanking can also allow much greater resolution and refresh rates on systems with relatively low pixel clock restrictions, such as IMPACT boards. Using reduced blanking, even low end IMPACT systems have been proven to support resolutions of 1920x1200 at ~60 FPS.

https://wiki.preterhuman.net/Video_Forma...VFO)_Files

due to that site, i thought everyone was using these vfo files to improve performance, and that i could use my preferred resolution.
but if the vfo files are too experimental and dangerous to use i will avoid it.

what about the keyboard & mouse problem?
is using a modern usb mouse and keyboard possible, by way of some adapters?
it's not a standard usb to ps/2 adapter right? i think the sgi mini-din connectors are different?