Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 11:15:57 -0500 (EST) From: Martin Renters <martin@victor.innovus.com> To: gclarkii@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using a SUN monitor Message-ID: <199511301615.LAA05856@victor.innovus.com> In-Reply-To: <199511300501.XAA04408@main.gbdata.com> from "Gary Clark II" at Nov 29, 95 11:01:18 pm
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> I've got a SUN 19 inch monitor I would LOVE to use under X. The only problem > is that I'm not sure how to hook it up... The monitor is in the XFree > monitor DataBase so that is covered. > > Does anyone around have a diagram or discription of how to do this? I > have no problem firing up a soldering iron (I spent 6 years in the Navy > as an ET..:)). I have done this with an old HP workstation monitor. The monitor originally had 3 BNC connectors on the back (RGB), but you could order a sync board for the monitor which would give you H-Sync and V-Sync inputs (this board was about $39). I then purchased a VGA->5 BNC cable ($40) to hook it up. The major problem with this setup is that many (all?) of the older workstation monitors are fixed frequency monitors. This means they can only be used at the resolution they were designed for (1024x768 in my case). They work well if you're running Xfree86 in graphics mode, but they are unable to do 80x25 text mode (you just get garbage on the screen). Martin
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