Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 16:16:37 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [jgrosch@mooseriver.com: Re: Beginning SPARC port] Message-ID: <199712132316.QAA01164@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Dec 1997 09:35:14 %2B1030." <19971214093514.22194@lemis.com> References: <19971214093514.22194@lemis.com> <199712130529.WAA00388@pencil-box.village.org> <21442.882034810@verdi.nethelp.no>
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In message <19971214093514.22194@lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes: : A multisync monitor isn't a prerequisite for XFree86. Many (most?) : newer display boards have programmable clocks, so you can set up a : mode line to generate the correct frequencies for a specific Sun : monitor. I've been using one since 1993 or so. An S3 board with a programable clock chip was the first board (#9 Level 3 or some such VLB). It works great, so long as you know which which fixed frequency you have. There are also patches to syscons to allow it to do text mode as well on these beasts, leaving just the boot sequence itself as a problem. I've not used them myself... Warner
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