[rescue] 13W3 -> vga

[Loomis, Rip]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sambo at charm.net [mailto:sambo at charm.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, 11 July, 2001 09:04
> 
> > Matrox Millenium and MillII.  You can edit the .ini file 
> and run them
> > at a fixed-freq. under Windows.  Of course, text mode 
> doesent work, but
> > if you stay in Windows all the time... You can also run 
> them w/Linux.
> 
> 
> Can you 'splain how to do it in Linux, or point me to something that
> does?
> 

Well, there's some info about enabling Sync-on-Green
at:
  http://saturn.tlug.org/sunstuff/ffmonitor.html#matrox
I used this to get my MillII to drive an old CAD
monitor that required SOG, but the monitor itself
turned out to be a hosebeast and went away.

There's some other good info at:
  http://www.repairfaq.org/sam/ffmon.htm
where it talks about editing the mga.mon file.

The one missing piece that I can't find right now
(both of the above were sites I'd visited before and
re-found using a Google search for "matrox fixed frequency")
is the rules to convert between an XFree86 modeline
and the syntax of the mga.mon file...but it's not
that tough (IIRC, one uses absolute numbers and the
other uses relative ones or some such).  The only
non-multisync monitor currently attached to an x86
box in my house never gets used under Windows, so
I haven't played with mga.mon in over a year.

Hope this helps--

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Rip Loomis
Senior Systems Security Engineer, SAIC CIST
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