Hi,
From: Henti Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:13:22 +0200 >Wolfgang Liebich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> I've setup a new gentoo system. I plan to use the monitor of a SUN >> workstation (a "Sun 40x30cm RGB monitor" - I don't know more) with it. >> The PC has an "Intel 945G/GZ Express Integrated Graphics Controller". >> Is it possible to use a SUN monitor with this graphics cars? Which >> special settings do I need? >Alot of the specialized monitors (my experiance is with SGI machines) >uses single sync monitors, which means they don't have a sync range >like most monitors for PC's, but a single sync range hardlocked to the >card in the machine the work with. >You'll need to find out exactly which monitor it is .. find out what >sync and refresh it is hardlinked with and then get your card to output >signal in that sync and refresh otherwise you won't get it working. > >Please bear in mind, I have never worked on Sun monitors with PC's so >can't vouch for how accurate this might be ... just going from previous >experience with similar situation and what was the cause of it WELL, my experiences so far: - With the Intel on board controller it don't work. This controller accepts no mode lines but only the modes stored in the BIOS - and those won't work tith the GDM-5410 monitor. - The monitor seems to support multiple frequencies, but many modes work pretty poor. With another PC (my old one) and a trusty Matrox G200 card I managed to get one mode ([EMAIL PROTECTED] Hz) working. Open questions: - There are tools like get-edid+parse-edid, ddcprobe etc. which query a monitor via DDC about his capabilities. Are there ports of such tools to Solaris/Sparc? I want to use the settings on the SUN WS to get other nice mode lines, too. - Failing that, how can I get the "predefined" set of nice modes which work for the SUN? (for example a 1600x1000 mode I'm using right now). Not THAT simple :-( - Wolfgang
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