On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:12:36PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > > No. Sorry. I don't know and I don't support linux, ;-) :-) > No idea if this will work, but what happens if you run lilo vga=xxx to > enter framebuffer mode and then use fbset to capture the sync rates? Er... I haven't installed the system yet on the box which is to use that monitor. I was trying to know all the unknowns before I start... not only for ease of installation, but for deciding whether to grab a faster or a slower video card off the heap to build the box. Trying it on one of my other boxes is awkward, as they all have custom kernels without framebuffer support. I don't quite see how this would work, though - AIUI framebuffer uses a file similar to XF86Config to define its modes. And given the missing pins in the plug, I don't think it's possible to interrogate this monitor to determine its capabilities. It's quite old. But similarly old and apparently crappy monitors sometimes turn out not to be crappy, and have surprisingly good scan rate specs; or sometimes they are annoyingly crappy, and only accept particular combinations of horizontal and vertical frequencies. Another feature of old monitors is that they don't shut down when presented with a mode they can't handle, which discourages experimentation. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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