[SunRescue] Video output on SGI

[Bjrn Ramqvist]

Mike Meredith at home wrote:
> 
> "setmon changes the video output format to the one specified; it also
>  specifies the default video format   to be used at system power-up or
> 
> (from the IRIX manual page)
> 
> A bit further down, it says that it will only manage to set the power-up
> graphics format on graphics systems with an eeprom --- including RE,
> Impact, Extreme, etc.
> 
> Of course, I haven't *tried* it on any of the SGI's that I've got access
> to.

Wow. I gotta check this out. Have some Octanes and Indigo2's at work
that I could try this on.

Is there an easy way of checking if the graphicsboard has an eprom?
We currently have alot of Indigos (not the I^2) that I would need to
experiment on...


	/Bjorn