> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:sunray-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ottomeister > Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 9:55 PM > To: SunRay-Users mailing list > Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] Why SunRay? > That's right, there's no standard yet. There probably never will be, > because VESA seems to have moved away from publishing specific > timings and instead just suggests approximations. For most of the > recent panel timings t's up to the manufacturer of the monitor to > decide what timings to accept and what variances to accept around > those timings. You see all of those "GTF" annotations in the "Note" > column for the 1680x1050 entries in the table at the end of that web > page? That's what "GTF" means. > > So don't expect Sun Ray to offer a baked-in 1680x1050 timing in > 'utsettings' until there's enough customer demand to justify spending > the time, effort and money to acquire and test a representative sample > of 1680x1050 panels so that we can find out what timing has the best > chance of working reliably.
Otto, Thanks for the response...But I've always had a very hard time understanding why it always takes Sun so long to support even the seemingly simplest advances in computer technology... Let's take this subject for example...You give the excuse that Sun doesn't have a representative sample of monitors. Fair enough, I can understand that. But the Sun Rays use ATI chipsets. I'm certain ATI has a representative sample of monitors, after all, that's what they do, right? ATI even *gasp* writes drivers for those very same chipsets. Those very same chipsets *gasp* support the latest monitors simply by plugging them in! So, why in the heck isn't Sun working closely with their video chipset vendor and asking them how they do it with their other supported operating systems? If ATI isn't willing to share, then I would think Sun should have looked for a different chipset vendor. > So far no-one (and I mean no-one) has > filed a request for it with Sun Ray engineering. I think I've seen > three individuals ask for it, including you. Looks like you can make that five...Looks like two more people are now asking for "non-standard" monitor support. As for filing requests...I gave up on that years ago. I've probably filed a dozen RFE and/or bug reports, and I've never heard back on any of them. I've had my name attached to dozens more, and never heard anything back on any of them either. >If only there was a searchable archive of this list's traffic, and if only >there was some way to find that archive from a pointer on the list's home >page, and if only that archive went as far back as, say, August 29th of >last year, and if only you were somehow able to find a series of messages >with the subject "Custom graphic resolutions using utresdef (Sunray >Software 3.0)" then perhaps you would already have been able to get it >working. Ah, if only. I'm very well of the list archives and use them frequently, thank you...The point was, that automagically detecting monitor timings appears to be a trivial thing in the Windows, and probably even the Mac worlds, so why isn't it in the Sun World? I first started pushing monitor timings into X back in the early 90s on my lowly 386-25 on Interactive Unix. Unix seems to have gone knowhere on this capability since then while this has all become seamless in other OSes. _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
