| 1 |
Hi, |
| 2 |
|
| 3 |
|
| 4 |
From: Henti Smith [mailto:henti@×××××××××××.za] |
| 5 |
|
| 6 |
>On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:13:22 +0200 |
| 7 |
>Wolfgang Liebich <Wolfgang.Liebich@×××××××.com> wrote: |
| 8 |
|
| 9 |
>> Hi, |
| 10 |
>> I've setup a new gentoo system. I plan to use the monitor of a SUN |
| 11 |
>> workstation (a "Sun 40x30cm RGB monitor" - I don't know more) with it. |
| 12 |
>> The PC has an "Intel 945G/GZ Express Integrated Graphics Controller". |
| 13 |
>> Is it possible to use a SUN monitor with this graphics cars? Which |
| 14 |
>> special settings do I need? |
| 15 |
|
| 16 |
>Alot of the specialized monitors (my experiance is with SGI machines) |
| 17 |
>uses single sync monitors, which means they don't have a sync range |
| 18 |
>like most monitors for PC's, but a single sync range hardlocked to the |
| 19 |
>card in the machine the work with. |
| 20 |
|
| 21 |
>You'll need to find out exactly which monitor it is .. find out what |
| 22 |
>sync and refresh it is hardlinked with and then get your card to output |
| 23 |
>signal in that sync and refresh otherwise you won't get it working. |
| 24 |
> |
| 25 |
>Please bear in mind, I have never worked on Sun monitors with PC's so |
| 26 |
>can't vouch for how accurate this might be ... just going from previous |
| 27 |
>experience with similar situation and what was the cause of it |
| 28 |
|
| 29 |
WELL, my experiences so far: |
| 30 |
- With the Intel on board controller it don't work. This controller accepts no mode lines |
| 31 |
but only the modes stored in the BIOS - and those won't work tith the GDM-5410 monitor. |
| 32 |
- The monitor seems to support multiple frequencies, but many modes work pretty poor. With |
| 33 |
another PC (my old one) and a trusty Matrox G200 card I managed to get one mode (1280x1024@76 Hz) working. |
| 34 |
|
| 35 |
Open questions: |
| 36 |
- There are tools like get-edid+parse-edid, ddcprobe etc. which query a monitor via DDC about his capabilities. |
| 37 |
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, |
| 38 |
too. |
| 39 |
- 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). |
| 40 |
|
| 41 |
Not THAT simple :-( |
| 42 |
- Wolfgang |
Archives