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Date:      Mon, 24 Jun 2002 21:16:46 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Holger Lamm <holger.lamm@evk-koeln.de>
To:        freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 13W3 to VGA
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0206242113350.36851-100000@sauerbruch.evk-koeln.de>
In-Reply-To: <20020618190805.4027.qmail@bsd4us.org>

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On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Lyndon Griffin wrote:

[PC monitor stays black on SS20]

> Anthony's nailed one of the two issues -- Most PC monitors don't understand 
> the fixed-frequency that older Sun framebuffers spit out.  So, even if you 
> do have the VSIMMS, you may not get video. 

It's not necessarily the frequency.
Workstations usually have sync-on-green (in contrast to 
using separate wires,  as all PC video cards do), and not every monitor 
is capable of that.

Holger

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