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- From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: ??? SUN color monitor on IBM-PC?
- Date: 13 Dec 1992 21:31:59 GMT
- Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
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- References: <1992Dec1.151118.1@ttd.teradyne.com> <1992Dec3.173616.15742@pt.com> <2478@alderan.sdata.de>
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- In article <2478@alderan.sdata.de> chris@alderan.sdata.de (Christoph Splittgerber) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec3.173616.15742@pt.com> rkd@pt.com (Ray Downes) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec1.151118.1@ttd.teradyne.com> nguyen@ttd.teradyne.com writes:
- >
- >>I'd like any info on this as well.
- >
- >Me too ! :-)
-
- I've thought about this for a while, and my conclusion is that it may
- be possible, but it would take a lot of work.
-
- The problem, of course, is that workstation monitors are fixed-sync.
- So first you need to get the sync frequencies out of the manufacturer, which
- may be hard to do.
-
- Then you need a PC video card that goes at the right clock rate.
-
- Now, there are some PC video cards with programmable clock synthesizers;
- that is, you do not have to choose within a fixed set of clock frequencies,
- you can make up your own. Diamond makes these; so do, I believe, STB.
- Diamond will not tell you how to program them, but reportedly STB will.
-
- I am not sure whether such synthesizers will have a low enough granularity
- to work with a fixed-sync monitor. And there is also the question of sync
- polarity, etc; and you'll probably have to wire up your own connector.
-
- Suppose all these issues are solved. Then you have to get software that
- will actually run on the damned thing. If you run MS-Windows, you will
- have to write your own Windows driver. Not easy. If you run X-Windows, you
- will have to hack up someone else's X driver. A little easier, but still
- not a two-hour project.
-
- So, yes, you probably can. And no, it's probably not worth it.
-
- c
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