From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 13 15:06:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA22185 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 15:06:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA22166 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 15:06:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA01880; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 09:35:14 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19971214093514.22194@lemis.com> Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 09:35:14 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: imp@village.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [jgrosch@mooseriver.com: Re: Beginning SPARC port] References: <199712130529.WAA00388@pencil-box.village.org> <21442.882034810@verdi.nethelp.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <21442.882034810@verdi.nethelp.no>; from sthaug@nethelp.no on Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 06:40:10PM +0100 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. Greg