From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 14 04:42:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA03193 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 04:42:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from iafnl.es.iaf.nl (uucp@iafnl.es.iaf.nl [195.108.17.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id EAA03186 for ; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 04:41:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by iafnl.es.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA02028 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG); Sun, 14 Dec 1997 13:42:12 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.5/8.6.12) id TAA15213; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 19:50:17 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199712131850.TAA15213@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: [jgrosch@mooseriver.com: Re: Beginning SPARC port] To: sthaug@nethelp.no Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 19:50:17 +0100 (MET) Cc: imp@village.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <21442.882034810@verdi.nethelp.no> from "sthaug@nethelp.no" at Dec 13, 97 06:40:10 pm X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As sthaug@nethelp.no wrote... > > : Spot on. With an appropriate cable, any halfway-decent PC monitor will > > : handle all of the standard Sun video modes. > > > > And with the right xf86 config file, you can use a sun monitor on a pc > > As far as I know that's not true of *all* Sun monitors, because not all > Sun monitors are multisync. I believe all *recent* Sun monitors are > multisync, though. Correct. E.g the older Hitachi monitors are single-sync. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' ---------------- Support your local daemons: run [Free,Net]BSD Unix ------