Re: fixed-freq monitor on udb (redhat)?
Eric Smith (eric@goonsquad.spies.com)
Thu, 26 Sep 1996 19:50:12 -0700 (PDT)
j brasher <brasherj@zoology.washington.edu> wrote:
> we recently purchased a number of UDB's (VX-40's), and are looking for
> short-format pci video cards capable of supporting some of the fixed-
> frequency monitors that have accumulated in the departmental computer
> museum. Mirage makes a 64-bit card based on the S3 968 chipset, but it
> certainly ain't cheap. can anyone suggest an alternative?
If you are using XFree, any normal S3-based card (and presumably most other
cards) can support a fixed frequency monitor if you compute the appropriate
settings. You just won't be able to see text mode.
Cheers,
Eric