[2064] in Release_7.7_team
What we gonna do about stupid Sun monitors.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Thu Jan 20 17:13:17 2000
Message-ID: <8sVsVjEGgE6e1HIGA0@mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 17:13:03 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU
CC: release-team@MIT.EDU, owls@MIT.EDU, dennis.aylward@east.sun.com,
avelino.Miguelez@east.sun.com
I remember vividly Naomi asking me if the newer, cheaper Sun monitors
would work ok for us, and my saying they'd be fine. Well they're NOT.
There are untold numbers of newly deployed Athena systems silently
configuring themselves for 8 bit operation because the stupid monitors
do not report our configuration explicitly as a valid configuration.
We can:
change the /etc/athena/xwrapper script from:
m64config -res 1152x900x76 -depth 24
to:
m64config -res 1152x900x76 nocheck -depth 24
But Greg Hudson points out that that runs the risk of trying to force
systems to a resolution that they may not support which might be bad.
We could have a bunch of systems, undistinguishable from other systems
stuck at the wrong resolution.
We could get Sun to swap all our CM751U monitors for ones that will
answer YES to 1152x900x76.
I have a nasty phone call in to Dennis about this one. And I am copying
him and his service engineer. Maybe they have a suggestion.
Me, I'm VERY upset that I authorized purchase of hundreds of monitors
that don't work.
-wdc
