[SGVLUG] RAM given to our guest speaker

[jmd]

On Sep 28, 2006, at 10:10 AM, Michael Proctor-Smith wrote:

> On 9/28/06, Jeff Carlson <jeff at ultimateevil.org> wrote:
>> jmd wrote:
>> > i have a couple of monitors too. 1 sun 20 inch (doesn't sync  
>> with PC so
>> > you must have a fixed frequency monitor or a sun box. 1 silicon  
>> graphics
>> > 17" CRT monitor does 1280x1024 i think. 1 really old apple monitor.
>>
>> You can get a PC to sync to those Sun and SGI monitors if your  
>> graphics
>> card will do it.  This requires specifically editing the mode  
>> lines of
>> xorg.conf.  The machine will not display anything until X comes up  
>> with
>> that config, so CMOS and other stuff has to be right before you  
>> boot.  I
>> have a friend who did get a similar single-sync monitor working  
>> with a
>> normal PC.  It was several years ago (back when SCLUG still met at
>> Nortel) but I'm sure I could get details from him if I asked.
>>
> Actually requires video card that supports sync-on-green, or a little
> piece of hardware, I used to do it with matrox cards(they where
> designed as workstation cards so makes sense).

ahhh my typo above. actually i meant a fixed frequency graphics card.  
rare but can be found.

jeff