Hello Jasen.

17 Sep 04 08:22, you wrote to me:


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

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

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

Expected ..

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

Possible ...

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

Ah ...

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

Hardware fault ...

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

Didn't know that loadlin had that problem ...

Once saw something similar, but it needed an RGB colour converter, and I will 
be damned if I know where to start looking for one of them, so let it be ...

Russell

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