Re: Identifying monitor for XF86Config ?
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 06:10:17PM +0200, Marcus Crafter wrote: Hi All, Well, finally got my hands on a Sun Ultra 1 which I've had immense fun with over the past couple of days! The Debian installation went fine, I'm really impressed with it. Last night I started to configure X, however I had one problem. I don't know the vert and horiz refresh rate of my (Sun) monitor, nor the amount of video ram on my card (Creator 3D). I've got X up and running with a borrowed configuration from a friend - but I don't know if it's optimal or not. The Creator3D card has 3 banks of 5MB ram each (AB buffers plus a Z buffer), which is exactly enough to run in 32 bit color, double buffered, 1280x1024. There is a 'highres' (unofficial?) hardware mode which will do 10MB of ram as one buffer, but graphics operations are somewhat slower. I'd recommend just using 1280x1024. The only thing I can say about the monitor is that its an original 20 Sun monitor with model number GDM 20D10. (If there's some other way of identifying it please let me know). Does anyone know the refresh rates ? or have an XF86Config file that I could look at ? The boot prom might know, actually. I think most of the monitors shipped with Creator cards could do 76 Hz, and I know 66Hz was a standard refresh rate. Jon Leonard (JonL on the Creator3D board)
Re: Identifying monitor for XF86Config ?
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 06:10:17PM +0200, Marcus Crafter wrote: Hi All, Well, finally got my hands on a Sun Ultra 1 which I've had immense fun with over the past couple of days! The Debian installation went fine, I'm really impressed with it. Last night I started to configure X, however I had one problem. I don't know the vert and horiz refresh rate of my (Sun) monitor, nor the amount of video ram on my card (Creator 3D). I've got X up and running with a borrowed configuration from a friend - but I don't know if it's optimal or not. The only thing I can say about the monitor is that its an original 20 Sun monitor with model number GDM 20D10. (If there's some other way of identifying it please let me know). Does anyone know the refresh rates ? or have an XF86Config file that I could look at ? AFAIK, this is irrelevant as the xsun servers don't use XF86Config. I don't know which server is good for the Creator card, but if it's one of the xsun or xsun24, you should be able to run the server without any XF86Config at all. OTOH, I see some other xservers in binary-sparc which you may be using and which may need this config file. HTH, Steve -- Steve Bowman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Buckeye, AZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.goodnet.com/~sbowman/ Powered by Debian GNU/Linux and GNU/Hurd http://www.debian.org
Identifying monitor for XF86Config ?
Hi All, Well, finally got my hands on a Sun Ultra 1 which I've had immense fun with over the past couple of days! The Debian installation went fine, I'm really impressed with it. Last night I started to configure X, however I had one problem. I don't know the vert and horiz refresh rate of my (Sun) monitor, nor the amount of video ram on my card (Creator 3D). I've got X up and running with a borrowed configuration from a friend - but I don't know if it's optimal or not. The only thing I can say about the monitor is that its an original 20 Sun monitor with model number GDM 20D10. (If there's some other way of identifying it please let me know). Does anyone know the refresh rates ? or have an XF86Config file that I could look at ? Cheers, Marcus -- . ,,$, Marcus Crafter ;$' ':Computer Systems Engineer $: : Open Software Associates GmbH $ o_)$$$: 82-84 Mainzer Landstrasse ;$,_/\ :' 60327 Frankfurt Germany ' /( \_' Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] .Business Hours : +49 69 9757 200 : After Hours: +49 69 49086750
Re: Identifying monitor for XF86Config ?
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 06:10:17PM +0200, Marcus Crafter wrote: The only thing I can say about the monitor is that its an original 20 Sun monitor with model number GDM 20D10. (If there's some other way of identifying it please let me know). Does anyone know the refresh rates ? or have an XF86Config file that I could look at ? From a google.com query on 'sun gdm 20d10' ... http://home.iae.nl/users/leibbran/sunmon/sunmon.htm -- Mike Renfro / RD Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
