Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 14:34:53 +0100 (MET) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: martin@victor.innovus.com (Martin Renters) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: Using a SUN monitor Message-ID: <199512041334.OAA10062@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199511301615.LAA05856@victor.innovus.com> from "Martin Renters" at Nov 30, 95 11:15:57 am
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Martin Renters writes: > > 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). You can get more than garbage on the screen in text mode. If you wait long enough, you'll get smoke out of the top. Greg
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