From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 4 05:59:22 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id FAA03530 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 05:59:22 -0800 Received: from cls.net (freeside.cls.de [192.129.50.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id FAA03525 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 05:59:12 -0800 Received: by mail.cls.net (Smail3.1.29.1) from allegro.lemis.de (192.109.197.134) with smtp id ; Mon, 4 Dec 95 13:59 GMT From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Reply-To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Received: (grog@localhost) by allegro.lemis.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id OAA10062; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 14:34:53 +0100 Message-Id: <199512041334.OAA10062@allegro.lemis.de> Subject: Re: Using a SUN monitor To: martin@victor.innovus.com (Martin Renters) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 14:34:53 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) In-Reply-To: <199511301615.LAA05856@victor.innovus.com> from "Martin Renters" at Nov 30, 95 11:15:57 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 516 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Martin Renters writes: > > The major problem with this setup is that many (all?) of the older workstation > monitors are fixed frequency monitors. This means they can only be used > at the resolution they were designed for (1024x768 in my case). They work > well if you're running Xfree86 in graphics mode, but they are unable to > do 80x25 text mode (you just get garbage on the screen). You can get more than garbage on the screen in text mode. If you wait long enough, you'll get smoke out of the top. Greg