[SGVLUG] RAM given to our guest speaker

[Michael Proctor-Smith]

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).