STILL Configuring x-windows for EGA- can anyone help with this?
Can anyone help with this or at least tell me if it's
not feasible?
--- Eric Hagglund <eahagglun@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 07:40:20 -0800 (PST)
> From: Eric Hagglund <eahagglun@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Configuring x-windows for EGA
> To: Debian User Lists User Lists
> <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>
> I'm trying to get a 486dx set up with X-windows. The
> monitor I'm using is a NEC Multisynch JC1401-P3A EGA
> that was manufactured when Ronald Reagan was peaking
> in popularity (in the U.S. at least, before Oliver
> North eclipsed him; no I'm not kidding :). I have
> installed Debian 1.3.1 onto a 500 meg hard drive and
> am now trying to get X Windows configured using the
> text based install utility, because the graphical
> setup uses VGA by default and that is (apparently)
> too
> much for this dinosaur to handle.
>
> Anyway, I am now at the menu where you choose the
> horizontal synch range for the monitor. All the
> choices available to me, save one are for VGA
> monitors. The last choice allows me to put in a
> range
> of my own. What should I put in?
>
> Then, when it asks me about the vertical range, what
> should I put in for that?
>
> BTW the back of the monitor says it's rated for 120
> volts at 60hz, and it appears to have jumpers for
> color settings. If any other details would be
> helpful,
> please let me know.
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