From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Oct 7 09:06:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA08281 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 09:06:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from persprog.com (persprog.com [204.215.255.203]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA08235 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 09:04:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by persprog.com (8.7.5/4.10) id KAA12007; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 10:30:00 -0500 Received: from dasa(192.2.2.199) by cerberus.ppi.com via smap (V1.3) id smarb1841; Mon Oct 7 11:27:14 1996 Received: from DASA/SpoolDir by dasa.ppi.com (Mercury 1.21); 7 Oct 96 11:27:51 +0500 Received: from SpoolDir by DASA (Mercury 1.30); 7 Oct 96 10:56:45 +0500 From: "David Alderman" Organization: Personalized Programming, Inc To: Harlan Stenn , hardware@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 10:56:36 +0500 Subject: Re: Video card for single-sync monitors? Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Message-ID: <1A642C06B0A@dasa.ppi.com> Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > To: hardware@freebsd.org > I have a couple of Sony single-sync RGB monitors, and I was wondering if > anybody knows of a video card I could use to drive these beasts with > FreeBSD and XFree86. > > The monitors have a fixed horizontal frequence of 63.34KHz, and 60Hz vertical. > > One monitor runs at 1280x1024; the other is 1280x768 (or so). > > Any suggestions? > > H > I believe a company called Photon has video cards based on a Cirrus logic chip that are for fixed frequency monitors. They are called Photon Torpedos, I beleive. I've had no experience with them but they seem to support a lot of different monitors. They are expensive, though. ====================================== When philosophy conflicts with reality, choose reality. Dave Alderman -- dave@persprog.com ======================================