From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 11 01:02:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA12050 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 01:02:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from cls.net (freeside.cls.de [192.129.50.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA12045 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 01:02:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.cls.net (Smail3.1.29.1) from allegro.lemis.de (192.109.197.134) with smtp id ; Thu, 11 Jan 96 09:02 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 JAA04407; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 09:48:26 +0100 Message-Id: <199601110848.JAA04407@allegro.lemis.de> Subject: Re: Dual Monitor Systems... To: regnauld@tetard.frmug.fr.net (Philippe Regnauld) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 09:48:25 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) In-Reply-To: <199601101208.NAA03439@tetard.frmug.fr.net> from "Philippe Regnauld" at Jan 10, 96 01:08:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Philippe Regnauld writes: > > Greg Lehey écrit / writes: >> >> J Wunsch writes: > >> You've obviously never burnt out a monitor :-( >> >> Running monitors out of spec *does* damage monitors. It may not do > > That is also what I thought -- out-of-sync ranges (even too low) > while not putting any stress on the sync circuits, can strain OTHER > components behind it, as they try to pickup a correct signal > (i.e. horiz et vert sweep), thus making them work ABOVE their > specs. It's the transformer too. From its point of view, the load is only dependent on the deviation from the tuned frequency, not the direction. > Regarding XInside and two monitors, could you give more info ? > (What displays - VGA/VGA?, how does syscons/pcvt behave?) See http://www.xinside.com. for the real lowdown (well, an approximation :-) I've been trying to get a pair of Hercules Graphite Terminator (does that sound like a display board or a new type of SCSI bus terminator?) boards working with BSD/OS 2.0, but though I am told they will work, I just get *really* nasty crashes. I'm waiting for 2.1 now. The mix is very dependent on who you ask. In the documentation it says that this combination won't work, and they recommend the Maxtrox Millenium, but unfortunately they're not available. I contacted the author of the software, Thomas Röll, and he says it will work. Greg