[SunRescue] Ultra 5 Monitors

[James Lockwood]

On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Jason Alexander wrote:

> The Ultra 5 and 10 both actually use an ATI card similar to the version
> used in many PC's and not only is the connector the same, but it signal is
> like that of a PC monitor too.  A nice sony monitor would do well on these.
>  In previous Sun machines they required fixed-frequency monitors...the
> ultra5 and 10 do not require such.

No system made truly "requires" a fixed-frequency monitor.  Multisync
monitors are, after all, more capable in terms of frequency response (at
the cost of complexity).  Many monitors that Sun has shipped with "older"
systems (GDM-20D10/20E20) are multisync (though the 20D10 can't go all the
way down to VGA scan rates).  A quality multisync monitor will work with
any framebuffer that supports the same scan rates and sync channel.

The Ultra 5/10 has an onboard Mach64 video chipset with either 2mb or 4mb
of VRAM.  It supports a wide variety of resolutions, at least one of which
should be supported on any modern monitor (1024x768 @ 60Hz is almost
certain to work anywhere).

-James