Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 17:31:17 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, sthaug@nethelp.no, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [jgrosch@mooseriver.com: Re: Beginning SPARC port] Message-ID: <199712140031.RAA01362@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 Dec 1997 19:20:23 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.971213191637.14104R-100000@picnic.mat.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971213191637.14104R-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.971213191637.14104R-100000@picnic.mat.net> Chuck Robey writes: : Dangerous to give out that advice, Greg. Many older Sun monitors were : single frequency monitors, and while Xfree86 could be prpogrammed to work : with them, during boot, when the monitors are in 640X400, they just can't : handle that at all, and will just burn out while tring to get to X11 mode. That's one reason that I always tell people in my "Howto" page to turn off the monitor while not in use and during reboot.... The Sony monitor that I've been using for years didn't seem to care much about being in text mode for periods of time up to 3 days (long weekend, power hit at the start...). Your milage may vary, however. Warner
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