On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 01:27:55PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote: > Which drivers and cards are capable of sync on green and what do I need to > achieve it? > > I've put the ``Option "SyncOnGreen"'' in the Monitor section. Do I need a > separate csync option somewhere? > > Browsing the source it seems not every driver implements this. I have a choice > of three graphics cards: > > 0000:02:0b.0 Display controller: Texas Instruments TVP4010 [Permedia] (rev 01) > 0000:02:0a.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage I/II 215GT [Mach64 GT] (rev 41) > 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 04) > > From the source it looks like the only one that actually implements > SyncOnGreen is the MGA driver. That kind of sucks because I really don't want > to give up the good graphics card for my main monitor. It's worse than that (, he's dead, Jim). > Is there any way to get sync on green using either of these other cards? Maybe > a jumper? What other inexpensive cards that I might find in a bargain bin are > capable of sync-on-green? Well, they're all cheaper than they used to be. But the card has to be designed for SoG, or you need to build an external 5-to-3 adapter, which isn't guaranteed to work well. Google for fixed-frequency, and just about everything on the first page ought to be helpful. I have an HP 3-jack; I know how you feel. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@xxxxxxxxxxx Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 "They had engineers in my day, too." -- Perry Vance Nelson _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
