Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 19:20:23 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, imp@village.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [jgrosch@mooseriver.com: Re: Beginning SPARC port] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971213191637.14104R-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <19971214093514.22194@lemis.com>
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On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 06:40:10PM +0100, 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. > > 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. Dangerous to give out that advice, Greg. Many older Sun monitors were single frequency monitors, and while Xfree86 could be prpogrammed to work with them, during boot, when the monitors are in 640X400, they just can't handle that at all, and will just burn out while tring to get to X11 mode. It requires a specially programmed video card that, when the bios tells it to go to 640X400, ignores that and stays where it's hardware optioned to be. > > Greg > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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