From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Jun 24 12:17:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from grisu.evk-koeln.de (grisu.evk-koeln.de [194.77.188.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 460BB37B42F for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:17:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sauerbruch.evk-koeln.de([139.64.201.254]) (1296 bytes) by grisu.evk-koeln.de via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:inet_hosts/T:smtp (sender: ) id for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 21:16:56 +0200 (CEST) (Smail-3.2.0.111 2000-Feb-17 #1 built 2000-Mar-14) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sauerbruch.evk-koeln.de (8.11.2/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g5OJGkE66633 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 21:16:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from holger.lamm@evk-koeln.de) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 21:16:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Holger Lamm X-Sender: lamm@sauerbruch.evk-koeln.de To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 13W3 to VGA In-Reply-To: <20020618190805.4027.qmail@bsd4us.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- .signature fault (core dumped) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message