[SunRescue] Changing screen resolution in solaris 8?

[Kevin Loch]

Connect the 1962 to the SS5 and *then* power on the SS5.
It will detect the older monitor and set the refresh to 66hz.
When you powre on with the new monitor, it detects that and uses
76hz refresh.

this assumes you are using a CG6/GX/TGX/S4 framebuffer
(very likely).

KL

User Bobkeys BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak wrote:
> 
> I got Solaris 8 up on my SS5, and the 17 inch late model monitor ist kaput.
> It is solid green, and occasionally burps and turns blue for a few minutes,
> then hiccups and goes green.  Anyway, I was wanting to use my monitor from
> the SS1 box it replaced, but, the GDM1962 did not sync to the SS5 video.
> It just put out intermittent horizontal lines.
> 
> Is there a way of setting in hardware the SS5 to the lower resolution?
> 
> If I take the sbus video out of the SS5 and replace it with the dual
> slot sbus video card in the SS1, will that work?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bob
> 
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