[rescue] SGI Video - PC Monitor

Big Endian bigendian at mac.com
Mon Feb 11 20:32:54 CST 2002


>On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 09:18:07PM -0500, Big Endian wrote:
>
>>  Indigo2 graphics systems default to 1280x1024x60.  If your monitor
>>  can't display that then you can't change it.
>
>You can't change it from a serial console?  That seems wierd.  I know that
>on the Onyx at school we have to do a bunch of video reconfiguring regularly
>(well, back when the machine was used regularly) from the prom console.

the OS reconfigures the video console when X starts.  you have to set 
it up when the OS is running, through the OS's control panel stuff. 
I've yet to find it in config files.

daniel
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