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Xref: sserve comp.windows.x.i386unix:14046 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video:17107 comp.os.386bsd.questions:14784 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newshost.marcam.com!uunet!zib-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!news From: nickel@prz.tu-berlin.de (Juergen Nickelsen) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Hyundai HMM-1900E monitor / HGC-1280 card VGA-compatible? Date: 29 Nov 1994 18:58:32 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Lines: 24 Distribution: world Message-ID: <NICKEL.94Nov29195832@toftum.prz.tu-berlin.de> References: <3bcvpg$gd2@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> Reply-To: nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de NNTP-Posting-Host: toftum.prz.tu-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-reply-to: nickel@prz.tu-berlin.de's message of 28 Nov 1994 16:24:12 GMT In article <3bcvpg$gd2@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> I wrote: > I can get a Hyundai monitor HMM-1900E very cheap, but I need some > information about it to decide if it is usable for me. [...] > - the video card must be supported by XFree86 *or* be compatible > enough to some supported video card in high-resolution mode or > > - the monitor must be VGA-compatible such that it can be used with a > high-resolution video card providing standard VGA signals. (With > the appropriate 9-pin to 15-pin adapter, of course.) > > Can anyone confirm one of these two points? In addition to the follow-up by Pascal Haible, who answered some more of my questions via email, I also received another answer confirming that the HGC-1280 is supported by the XFree86 monochrome server. The monitor is not VGA-compatible, though. By the way, stupid me has found in between the HGC-1280 mentioned in the XFree86 README. -- Juergen Nickelsen