On Nov 17, 2005, at 3:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's the expected behaviour. The Sun Ray picks the best of the
timings it got from DDC, but if it didn't get anything from DDC
then the only resolution it will use is 640x480.
This seems suboptimal to me.
It seems optimal to me. What better strategy could the Sun Ray apply?
Well in an ideal case it's optimal. :) I'd just like the ability to
override it. But, see below..
Would it not make sense for the
sysadmin to have some way of providing timing information to override
this?
Once the Sun Ray has made contact with a server, the server can
override the Sun Ray's choice of timing. The 'utxconfig' command has
an indirect influence on monitor timing. 'utresadm', 'utsettings' and
'utset' override the monitor timing directly.
Ah-HA! Now that I didn't know. I knew abut utxconfig but not the
other two. It sounds like that's what I was wishing for. :)
Nobody is proposing that people use forced timings as a matter of
course.
If you don't have a definite need them then it's best not to use them.
Unfortunately sometimes they're the only solution.
This is exactly what I was talking about.
Philosophy and vision are fine but Sun Rays do have to work in the real
world. The first releases of Sun Ray firmware used to drive 1152x900
(@66 Hz, I think) if they didn't get a DDC response. Anybody want to
guess why?
Hmmmm, that sounds awfully familiar. [looks at stack of Sun monitors
in the closet]
Apparently people out there need serial connectivity. USB-to-serial
adapters are not standardised and the manufacturers have a bad track
record of jumping from one chipset to another without telling anyone,
with the result that the adapter you buy today might not work even
though it has the same model number as the one you bought yesterday.
The native serial ports in the 170 aren't subject to that kind of
uncertainty.
This wasn't in my side of the thread, but I feel I should speak up in
support of the serial capabilities of Sun Rays. I honestly have no
preference for native vs. USB<->serial adapters, but I use async serial
I/O all the time, every day, and the ability to hang an adapter off of
a Sun Ray has been a tremendous help to me.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire "You'll have to be a lot more specific than
'that
Cape Coral, FL girl last night.'" -Ted McFadden
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