Hello Russell.

15 Sep 04 21:04, you wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 RT> Hello Maurice.

 RT> 14 Sep 04 11:44, you wrote to me:

 RT>>> Wanna donate me some nice big colour monitors, transport costs
 RT>>> included,
 RT>>> , I still run 3 mono vga's here. 

 MK>> I still like those.  For most graphical 3D plotting apps 256
 MK>> greyscaling yeilds the most detail methinks.  Works great for
 MK>> colour blind people as often they miss the detail due to some
 MK>> colours looking exactly the same to them.  Greyscaling eliminates
 MK>> that effect.  I agree with them about the greater detail even
 MK>> though I am not colour blind.  I once saw a Sun 21" mono vga
 MK>> monitor way back when that I would have given away my first born
 MK>> for.  Totally awesome for sure.

 RT> All good reasons to run mono vga, besides, I got them cheap, or for
 RT> nothing.

 RT> I really wouldn't mind a Sun 21" monitor myself, mono or otherwise.
 RT> :-)

I've got one (or something like it). it won't connect to a vga card (easily).

it _needs_ a crazy sync rate, (which I did manage to determine) it won't
display a stable image in a "regular" text or graphics mode,  and
also doesnt like the voltages found on the vga pins (OTOH as it cost me as
much as your mono VGAs so it could be defective)

and after solving the above the next problem I had with it was getting my
video card to run fast enough to get square pixels and also trying to get
the image clear.

bright or dark pieces on the screen tended to saturate and bleed to the right...

the crazy sync rate was a pain too, I had to port svgatextmode from linux
to dos (only a few changes were needed) so that I could set the video mode
to something I could actually read during the boot process. But as
loadlin.exe doesn't work with 2.4 or later kernels, and the linux bootstrap
video mode code only gives BIOS modes (none of which are suitable) it's out
in the back of my garage at the moment.

Jasen

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