On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 06:10:17PM +0200, Marcus Crafter wrote: > Hi All, > > Well, finally got my hands on a Sun Ultra 1 which I've had immense fun > with over the past couple of days! > > The Debian installation went fine, I'm really impressed with it. > > Last night I started to configure X, however I had one problem. I > don't know the vert and horiz refresh rate of my (Sun) monitor, nor > the amount of video ram on my card (Creator 3D). I've got X up and > running with a borrowed configuration from a friend - but I don't know > if it's optimal or not.
The Creator3D card has 3 banks of 5MB ram each (A&B buffers plus a Z buffer), which is exactly enough to run in 32 bit color, double buffered, 1280x1024. There is a 'highres' (unofficial?) hardware mode which will do 10MB of ram as one buffer, but graphics operations are somewhat slower. I'd recommend just using 1280x1024. > The only thing I can say about the monitor is that its an original > 20" Sun monitor with model number GDM 20D10. (If there's some other > way of identifying it please let me know). > > Does anyone know the refresh rates ? or have an XF86Config file that I > could look at ? The boot prom might know, actually. I think most of the monitors shipped with Creator cards could do 76 Hz, and I know 66Hz was a standard refresh rate. Jon Leonard (JonL on the Creator3D board)
