On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 03:46:15PM +0000, Pigeon wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:42:42AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > > I am looking at the new Apple displays (the 23" 1920x1200 display). > > > > What would I need to make this work on a Intel Pentium III box with an > > ASUS P2B-DS MB? > > > > Am I crazy to try this? I would clearly need a new graphics card to > > match the display. > > > > Would this be supported by the Debian distribution? XFree86 drivers? > > > > Randy > > AFAIK it is possible to get adaptors that enable you to connect a Mac > monitor to a VGA card. > > I suspect your main problem will be that the monitor won't understand > the signal it's getting until your system has booted far enough to > load something that changes the resolution from DOS-style 80x25 to > something that your monitor can cope with. This will probably mean > enabling framebuffer support, and having an ordinary monitor to swap > in if you have the need to diagnose booting problems at some future > date. > > As far as X is concerned you just need to set the appropriate values > for your monitor in XF86Config, and away you go. > > That's your other main problem, of course: extracting from Apple the > horizontal and vertical sync range that the monitor will accept.
[ more fuel for the fire ] Don't Mac monitors require sync on green? Some graphics cards support that on a din-15 VGA port, other don't. If it's only Sun that's sync on green, sorry :-) -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous. -- Will Durant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
