Ang: Re: [SPARCbook] (no subject)

Sunder sunder at sunder.net
Fri Jun 11 05:42:40 CDT 2004


On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, helsod at algonet.se wrote:

> Hm.. This is not my personal experience at all. I got tired of my old flaky 
> slightly dim Sun monitor and threw it out even though i paid money for it. 
> I then got an 18" TFT, it's a NEC I think. I could get the exact specs if 
> anyones interested, but I don't have it in front of me right now. However, 
> it is a modern multisync TFT with a BNC input and an ordinary VGA contact. 
> It has worked fine with the following computers:
> Sparc Ultra 2, IPX, Sparcbook 3GX, Ultrabook 1 at up to 1024x1280 8 bit, 
> Sparcbook 3000XT at 1024x1280, and non Sparc machines such as NeXT and Indy 
> (Silicon Graphics) worked nicely too, although the picture didn't cover 
> the whole screen. Of course it works with pcs and macs too, but that's to 
> be expected. 


Ditto, I've not played with an Ultrabook in quite a while, but I do recall 
having to play around with fbconfig settings to get it to work with a VGA 
monitor, but that it did infact work.



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