Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 20:54:14 -0600 From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> To: mikk0022@maroon.tc.umn.edu Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sony GDM-1962B in text mode? Message-ID: <34989056.31DFF4F5@hiwaay.net> References: <Pine.OSF.3.96.971217193130.12535A-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net> <199712180229.UAA19295@x115-105.reshalls.umn.edu>
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mikk0022@maroon.tc.umn.edu wrote: > > Is this a 19" trinitron monitor with 3 BNC connectors on the back, > and sync-on-green? If so, then I might be sitting in front of > an HP-packaged one right now. > No actually it is a Sun-packaged 19" monitor with a 13W3 connector, but it is sync-on-green. This is about the only info I have found out about it. http://www.nashville.net/~griffin/monitors/Sun08.html > Upshot is, ther is no way that I know of to get it working _with > a standard video card_ in text mode. There is a company that > sells special video cards which will drive fixed-frequence graphics > displays in VGA text mode, but I was under the impression that > they are expensive and not supported in XFree86, but that > may have changed. > I've seen these cards but they kind of defeat the purpose of buying an inexpensive monitor when you have to turn right around and buy an expensive video card. > Other than that, I'd be glad to send you my modeline -- if we > have the same monitor, that is.... > Please do. > BTW: If your monitor is what I think it is, what sort of hardware > are you using to connect a VGA card to it? If you mean the cable, it is a D15 male to 13W3 female. For further details you can look at http://www.ultraspec.com/vidindx.htm BTW, I meant to say this was a GDM-1962B monitor and not GDM-1692B as the subject used to say. :) Steve > -- > Chris Mikkelson mikk0022@maroon.tc.umn.edu > U of M Tuba and Student "Life is too short for windows..." > '94-present
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