Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 09:35:14 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: imp@village.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [jgrosch@mooseriver.com: Re: Beginning SPARC port] Message-ID: <19971214093514.22194@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <21442.882034810@verdi.nethelp.no>; from sthaug@nethelp.no on Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 06:40:10PM %2B0100 References: <199712130529.WAA00388@pencil-box.village.org> <21442.882034810@verdi.nethelp.no>
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On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 06:40:10PM +0100, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: >>> Spot on. With an appropriate cable, any halfway-decent PC monitor will >>> handle all of the standard Sun video modes. >> >> And with the right xf86 config file, you can use a sun monitor on a pc > > As far as I know that's not true of *all* Sun monitors, because not all > Sun monitors are multisync. I believe all *recent* Sun monitors are > multisync, though. A multisync monitor isn't a prerequisite for XFree86. Many (most?) newer display boards have programmable clocks, so you can set up a mode line to generate the correct frequencies for a specific Sun monitor. Greg
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