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Xref: sserve comp.windows.x.i386unix:14054 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video:17120 comp.os.386bsd.questions:14794 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!haible From: haible@izfm.uni-stuttgart.de (Pascal Haible) 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 11:45:52 GMT Organization: IZFM, Uni Stuttgart Lines: 34 Message-ID: <3bf49g$2uda@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> References: <3bcvpg$gd2@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: sunserv.izfm.uni-stuttgart.de In article <3bcvpg$gd2@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>, Juergen Nickelsen <nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de> 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 monitor is a 19" monochrome (greyscale) monitor and comes with an >own ISA-bus graphics card (HGC-1280). The card is capable of a >1600x1280 resolution with interlace, 1280x1024 without interlace. >It is VGA-compatible (allegedly). The monitor has a 9-pin connector (as >apposed to the 15-pin VGA connector). The drivers for the card include >ones for MS-Windows, AutoCAD, and Ventura Publisher. I had a HGC-1280 with a HMM-1900E running happyly with XFree86 under Linux 'till the card died :-((. Hope we are talking about the same card: the card does 1280x960 at 1bpp with 66Hz, and I tweaked it to 1280x1024 with virtual width 14xx. In low res graphics mode, it is Hercules compatible. Never heard of 1600x1280 interlaced for this card. >However, I want to use the monitor with XFree86 under FreeBSD. In >order to be usable, either > > - the video card must be supported by XFree86 *or* be compatible > enough to some supported video card in high-resolution mode or The card is supported, however, it was afaik never tested under FreeBSD. > - 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.) The monitor is NOT VGA-compatible! It is fixed frequency (66kHz, 66Hz), and ECL coupled! While the monitor input would be able to display grey scales, you would need some kind of adapter circuit. Not a trivial thing at 110MHz. Pascal