[geeks] Creator 3D graphics on a Sony 400PS

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Sun, 08 Aug 2004 @ 09:51 -0500, Mike Hebel said:

> Fair enough.  I'm mystified why you're having a problem with the BNC 
> connections though as they are usually clearly labeled and as long as 
> you have RBG+synch it "just works" from my experience.  Is there a 
> switch on the back of the monitor for combining H and V synch?

No switch.

> >That's useful.  I forgot about being able to set the resolution.  It's
> >possible it's something oddball right now.
> >
> >Are you sure about the = sign though?
> 
> I'm taking it directly from the framebuffer FAQ I posted the link to.  
> It works.

I have never used the = sign when setting PROM settings.  I always
thought the syntax was based on C-shell.

In other words:

    setenv ttya-mode 38400,8,n,1,-

...rather than

    setenv ttya-mode=38400,8,n,1,-

> Dig out the manual for the monitor if possible.  The only links on 
> Sony's site don't seem to have your monitor listed:

The manual doesn't really cover much except how to connect the BNC
cables.  It just says they are .7 volt BNC plus H/V sync.

> The only other link I've found says that it only show two resolutions 
> for that monitor:

The manuals generally only show what Windows is capable of displaying on
them.  Kinda sucks.

For example, 1400x1050 is perfect aspect ratio, but isn't listed.  I use
it all the time when running Linux or *BSD, but Windows video drivers
cannot (or rather will not) generate that mode.

> FWIW with these sorts of monitors I've always:
> 
> 1) Had _all_ BNCs connected.
> 2) Forced the horizontal and vertical synch to be separate if possible.

This seems inplicit in it having those as seperate connectors.

> 3) Treated the monitor as a fixed-frequency monitor.
> 4) Forced Sun to use the top size the monitor can display.

I have yet to try all possible video modes.


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