Hello, I just purchased an old ss2, expeccialy for the monitor, which is a 21" sony trinitron. I got XFree86 working on it (copied some modelines from a mailing list somewhere). Currently there is a SunGX video card, er, framebuffer in it. It's a cg6. Supports a pretty good resolution, unfortunately only 8 bit colors are available. But I still got a second video card. I't a dual sBus card, used for CAD, there are 32 memory banks on it, chips say 'lsi logic' and 'Bt', and there is a white sticker with the number '501164530980' on it. Does anyone know whether this card will give 16 or even 24 bit colors?
A better alternative seems to me to use the sparc as an X terminal (it's slow!) or to use the monitor on a PC. Now I know that it isn't easy to get a fixed frequency monitor working on a pc (or vice versa). The video card has to support it somehow. Before I purchase an adaptor, does anyone know whether my hardware will somehow collaborate: - monitor: as said, a sony trinitron, model No gdm-1962b - video card: nvidia tnt2 M64 (eventually I'll buy one of the newer ati (radeon) cards if they can do this job). I heard somehow you can make a setup that the monitor works, but you can only see X, no console or boot messages. In how far is this true? tia! Frank -- homepage: www.student.kuleuven.ac.be/~m9917684 jabber (=IM): [EMAIL PROTECTED] No part of this copyright message may be reproduced, read or seen, dead or alive or by any means, including but not limited to telepathy without the benevolence of the author.
