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Any ideas on how to change the Sun monitor refresh settings to something
that will suit a Sony Multiscan E220 monitor on Solaris 8 (CDE)??

More specifically, can the refresh rate on the video card in a Sun Ultra 5
be altered and, if so, how? Thanks!

"Scott" <if_you_want_my_email_ask_in_a_post@please.com> wrote in message
news:3f7417bd$0$23584$5a62ac22@freenews.iinet.net. au...
> Any ideas on how to change the Sun monitor refresh settings to something
> that will suit a Sony Multiscan E220 monitor on Solaris 8 (CDE)??
>
>

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 09:08:53 +1000, Scott wrote:

Top posting corrected. Please do not do that.

> "Scott" <if_you_want_my_email_ask_in_a_post@please.com> wrote in message
> news:3f7417bd$0$23584$5a62ac22@freenews.iinet.net. au...
>> Any ideas on how to change the Sun monitor refresh settings to something
>> that will suit a Sony Multiscan E220 monitor on Solaris 8 (CDE)??
>>
>>

> More specifically, can the refresh rate on the video card in a Sun Ultra 5
> be altered and, if so, how? Thanks!

You fail to be specific about which frame buffer is used in your machine
and U-5 shipped with 4 different ones.

http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub....graphics.html

The manual page you probably want is m64config(1M), although you may need
to read pgxconfig(1M).

Further since you have not supplied the specifications of that monitor how
is anyone supposed to know what resolutions and refresh rates it can
support?

Scott <if_you_want_my_email_ask_in_a_post@please.com> wrote:
>> Any ideas on how to change the Sun monitor refresh settings to something
>> that will suit a Sony Multiscan E220 monitor on Solaris 8 (CDE)??
>
> More specifically, can the refresh rate on the video card in a Sun Ultra 5
> be altered and, if so, how? Thanks!

man fbconfig

Scott

"Dave Uhring" <daveuhring@yahoo.com> wrote in message
newsan.2003.09.27.02.18.05.406679@yahoo.com...
> On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 09:08:53 +1000, Scott wrote:
>
> Top posting corrected. Please do not do that.

Sorry I don't know what that means?

>
> > "Scott" <if_you_want_my_email_ask_in_a_post@please.com> wrote in message
> > news:3f7417bd$0$23584$5a62ac22@freenews.iinet.net. au...
> >> Any ideas on how to change the Sun monitor refresh settings to
something
> >> that will suit a Sony Multiscan E220 monitor on Solaris 8 (CDE)??
> >>
> >>
>
> > More specifically, can the refresh rate on the video card in a Sun Ultra
5
> > be altered and, if so, how? Thanks!
>
> You fail to be specific about which frame buffer is used in your machine
> and U-5 shipped with 4 different ones.
>
> http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub....graphics.html
>
> The manual page you probably want is m64config(1M), although you may need
> to read pgxconfig(1M).
>
> Further since you have not supplied the specifications of that monitor how
> is anyone supposed to know what resolutions and refresh rates it can
> support?

Ok, the details are:

1. The posting is for a co-worker. I happen to think Usenet is fantastic
and of great value; he never uses it. He had asked the question of me via
email and I was just passing it on.

2. All I know is it's a Sun Ultra 5, fairly old, around 3 years. I'll hunt
down the original invoice somewhere; it may even have some of the technical
details.

3. All I really wanted to know is whether the video card refresh rate COULD
be changed. My co-worker will have to work out the details for the proper
settings.

4. For some reason he's not using the Sun monitor, perhaps for desktop real
estate reasons. He's trying to use a Sony Multiscan E220 monitor.

5. We both have home offices and tele-commute. The Sun box isn't
accessible to me.

Hope those details help (although I don't think they do :-) ). Thanks for
the replies so far, I'll pass the details on.

Regards,
Scott

On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 16:22:42 +1000, Scott wrote:

> "Dave Uhring" <daveuhring@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> newsan.2003.09.27.02.18.05.406679@yahoo.com...
>> On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 09:08:53 +1000, Scott wrote:
>>
>> Top posting corrected. Please do not do that.
>
> Sorry I don't know what that means?

http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html


> 3. All I really wanted to know is whether the video card refresh rate COULD
> be changed. My co-worker will have to work out the details for the proper
> settings.

Yes

From the m64config man page:

Card possible resolutions: 640x480x60, 800x600x75, 1024x768x60
1024x768x70, 1024x768x75, 1280x1024x75, 1280x1024x76
1280x1024x60, 1152x900x66, 1152x900x76, 1280x1024x67
960x680x112S, 960x680x108S, 640x480x60i, 768x575x50i, 1280x800x76
1440x900x76, 1600x1000x66, 1600x1000x76, vga, svga, 1152, 1280
stereo, ntsc, pal