SGI 1600 SW monitor not working with yellow dog

[brad allison]

Anyone know if there are any plans in YD to support the SGI1600 Wide
Screen monitor?

-b


On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Iain Stevenson wrote:

>
> Well, I've had a look at the Mandrake site and the mode you want isn't in
> their fb.modes either.  So Mandrake won't be any better than YDL.  Neither
> is the fb.modes distributed with RedHat any good.  The stuff on SGIs web
> site seems pretty out of date too ....
>
> So you'll probably have to search news groups.  I found the posting below
> about X setup for the 1600 by searching on google.
>
>   Iain
>
>
>
>
>
> From: Bryan <fn0rd@grateful-SPAM.ME.NOT.net>
> Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.os.linux.x
> Subject: Re:  SGI 1600sw LCD panels on SGI linux 330 system
> Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 08:13:52 -0000
>
> In comp.sys.sgi.graphics Mayte Becker <mayte@pluginz.com> wrote:
> > I have a sgi 330 with 2 vr7 sgi cards and 2 1600 monitors and 2 multilink
> > adapters and just cant get it to work right. I would love to get ahold of
> > your xfree86 config file - it would be a great help
>
> here's the relevant parts:
>
> Section "Monitor"
>     Identifier  "mon1"
> #    VendorName  "SGI"
> #    ModelName   "1600sw"
>     HorizSync   31.5 - 121.0
>     VertRefresh 60-150
>     Modeline "1600x1024d32" 103.125  1600 1600 1656 1664 1024 1024 1029
> 1030 HSkew 7
> +Hsync +Vsync
>     Modeline "1600x1024d16" 103.125  1600 1600 1656 1664 1024 1024 1029
> 1030 HSkew 5
> +Hsync +Vsync
>     Modeline "1600x1024d08" 103.125  1600 1600 1656 1664 1024 1024 1029
> 1030 HSkew 1
> +Hsync +Vsync
> EndSection
>
>
> Section "Monitor"
>     Identifier  "mon2"
> #    VendorName  "SGI"
> #    ModelName   "1600sw"
>     HorizSync   31.5 - 121.0
>     VertRefresh 60-150
>     Modeline "1600x1024d32" 103.125  1600 1600 1656 1664 1024 1024 1029
> 1030 HSkew 7
> +Hsync +Vsync
>     Modeline "1600x1024d16" 103.125  1600 1600 1656 1664 1024 1024 1029
> 1030 HSkew 5
> +Hsync +Vsync
>     Modeline "1600x1024d08" 103.125  1600 1600 1656 1664 1024 1024 1029
> 1030 HSkew 1
> +Hsync +Vsync
> EndSection
>
>
> # PCI and AGP cards
>
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier  "card1"
>     Driver      "i128"
>     BusID       "PCI:0:12:0"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier  "card2"
>     Driver      "i128"
>     BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
> EndSection
>
>
>
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier  "screen1"
>     Device      "card1"
>     Monitor     "mon1"
>     DefaultDepth 24
>     Subsection "Display"
>         Depth       16
>         Modes       "1600x1024d16"
>         Virtual     1600 1024
>     EndSubsection
>     Subsection "Display"
>         Depth       32
>         Modes       "1600x1024d32"
>         Virtual     1600 1024
>     EndSubsection
>     Subsection "Display"
>         Depth       24
>         Modes       "1600x1024d32"
>         Virtual     1600 1024
>     EndSubsection
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier  "screen2"
>     Device      "card2"
>     Monitor     "mon2"
>     DefaultDepth 24
>     Subsection "Display"
>         Depth       16
>         Modes       "1600x1024d16"
>         Virtual     1600 1024
>     EndSubsection
>     Subsection "Display"
>         Depth       32
>         Modes       "1600x1024d32"
>         Virtual     1600 1024
>     EndSubsection
>     Subsection "Display"
>         Depth       24
>         Modes       "1600x1024d32"
>         Virtual     1600 1024
>     EndSubsection
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>     Identifier  "multihead"
>     Screen      "screen1"
>     Screen      "screen2"   LeftOf "screen1"
>     InputDevice "Mouse1"    "CorePointer"
>     InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
>
>

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