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Conference wrksys::alphastation

Title:Alpha Workstation Conference
Notice:See note 1.* for conference notices
Moderator:WRKSYS::HOUSE
Created:Wed Sep 07 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1996
Total number of notes:9122

677.0. "1600x1280 graphics/ UNIX" by UTROP1::OLTMANS_B () Fri Sep 15 1995 12:27

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677.1crosspostedUTROP1::OLTMANS_BFri Sep 15 1995 12:283
677.2Monitor is ready. Graphics card?TPOVC::JOHNNYHOWed Mar 06 1996 22:299
677.3BGSDEV::QUINLANMark Quinlan,Workstation Business SegmentFri Mar 08 1996 10:559
677.41600*1200 @ 60Hz with TGAII under UNIX ????BBPBV1::WALLACEjohn wallace @ bbp. +44 860 675093Wed Apr 23 1997 19:0214
    Re-posted after no answer in topic 9522 in UNIX conf...
    
    I have a prospective customer who would like to run Powerstorm (aka
    TGAII aka PBXGB-CA) displays at 1600 by 1200, but at 60Hz not our
    standard 65 or 70+ Hz. This is because he is connecting to a high-res
    scan converter/frame grabber which is fixed at 60Hz.
    
    The file tga_data.c looks interesting. Can he just put 60Hz as the
    refresh rate for one of the 1600x1200 settings and rebuild the kernel
    and expect it to work ?
    
    regards
    john
    
677.5UTOPIE::OETTLhide bug until worst timeThu Apr 24 1997 13:067
Hello,

according to the PBXGB-AA/CA Owner's Guide EK-PCIGR-OG the frequency can only
be set to 65 or 70Hz refresh, when running in 1600x1200 mode.
60Hz is possible with 1280x1024, 1024x864, 1024x768, 800x600, 640x480.

�tzi
677.6Been there, read that. Wish I had a PBXGB.BBPBV1::WALLACEjohn wallace @ bbp. +44 860 675093Thu Apr 24 1997 13:3813
    Yes, thanks, I should have said I already RTFM.
    
    I'd like to know whether the FM documents all the possibilities. Maybe
    it doesn't. If I had a PBXGB-whatever, I'd just try it. But I don't.
    
    Support is not a major issue, this is just to allow ground
    demonstrations of something that will (hopefully) be in aircraft at a
    later date with a more modern scan converter.
    
    So here's hoping.
    
    regards
    john
677.7it just might workWRKSYS::RICHARDSONFri Apr 25 1997 13:1213
    More combinations of scan rate and pixel dimensions work in the TGA2
    chip than are actually available via the little rotary switch on the
    card.  The hardware designers that I talked to think that 60 Hz at
    1600x1200 probably does (or should) work, but certainly no one has
    tried it, so you're on your own (assuming you can get a board to try
    this on).  You may be in luck.
    
    I would not, myself, want to have to look at a display at that density
    that was running at 60 Hz, but maybe in an airplane where there are no
    fluorescent lights overhead, it wouldn't be so bad.  I find the flicker
    at slow refresh rates to be really fatiguing.
    
    /Charlotte
677.8Will give it a goBBPBV1::WALLACEjohn wallace @ bbp. +44 860 675093Fri Apr 25 1997 15:3111
    Hi Charlotte,
    
    Thanks for the info. I'll have them try it (it may be a while) and
    hopefully report back here for the benefit of anyone else who may want
    to follow...
    
    Re: flicker. Don't assume that they're using the kind of monitors you
    and I get. You know what they say -  ass u me etc.
    
    regards
    john