From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 13 15:15:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA22723 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 15:15:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA22713 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 15:15:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0xh0mU-0006d7-00; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 16:15:34 -0700 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.8.8/8.8.3) with ESMTP id QAA01164; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 16:16:37 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199712132316.QAA01164@harmony.village.org> To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: [jgrosch@mooseriver.com: Re: Beginning SPARC port] Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 14 Dec 1997 09:35:14 +1030." <19971214093514.22194@lemis.com> References: <19971214093514.22194@lemis.com> <199712130529.WAA00388@pencil-box.village.org> <21442.882034810@verdi.nethelp.no> Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 16:16:37 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <19971214093514.22194@lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes: : 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. I've been using one since 1993 or so. An S3 board with a programable clock chip was the first board (#9 Level 3 or some such VLB). It works great, so long as you know which which fixed frequency you have. There are also patches to syscons to allow it to do text mode as well on these beasts, leaving just the boot sequence itself as a problem. I've not used them myself... Warner