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        I am currently using X11 on a linux box with a 15" Mag monitor and
a S3 fahrenheid card. I have the possibility to get a 21" sony monitor
from an old 3D graphic workstation ARDANT. It is a very good monitor, but
the problem is that I have not the spec. of the monitor: i.e horiz. freq.,
vert. freq. and so on. I now only that the monitor was used
with a 1280x1024 true-color with 3D accelerator cards on an ARDANT. and it
appears to be a fixed frequency monitor (i,e it as no controls).
Is it possible to used it with X11 and Linux, and how can I configurate
it. Any suggestion will be appreciated.

Thanks          Marc

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:       I am currently using X11 on a linux box with a 15" Mag monitor and
: a S3 fahrenheid card. I have the possibility to get a 21" sony monitor
: from an old 3D graphic workstation ARDANT. It is a very good monitor, but
: the problem is that I have not the spec. of the monitor: i.e horiz. freq.,
: vert. freq. and so on. I now only that the monitor was used
: with a 1280x1024 true-color with 3D accelerator cards on an ARDANT. and it
: appears to be a fixed frequency monitor (i,e it as no controls).
: Is it possible to used it with X11 and Linux, and how can I configurate
: it. Any suggestion will be appreciated.

: Thanks                Marc

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: Marc BUFFAT                                 ++++++++++++++++++++++++

Hi,
I (sort of) got a monitor from a Stardent working.  It may be the same
monitor, or very similar.

This monitor has 137MHz bandwidth, sync-on-green, and around a 70Hz
vertical refresh.  I can dig up the specs, but the following modeline
seemed to work:

ModeLine "1280x1024" 135 1280 1328 1496 1704 1024 1028 1032 1075 -hsync -vsync

I'm not familiar with the Fahrenheit card, but my guess is that it won't
work.  You need something capable of a 135MHz dot clock and sync-on-green.
I think your best bet would be a #9 with at least 2MB of VRAM, the
S3-964 chipset, Bt485 ramdac, I believe this is the #9 GXE64 Pro, or
some similar name.  Don't get a Stealth 64 VRAM, as this card does not
do sync-on-green, even though the ramdac supports it.  That's what we
bought, and we can sort-of get it to work with our monitor by tee-ing
the HSync and VSync into green, but we'll have to build a proper
circuit for combining signals in order to get it to work properly.
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Jason D. McNeill
MS 293, Dept. Chem.
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
(510) 642-6389