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Re: Athena 8.4 install and HP Vetra VE8's.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Mon Jul 24 02:44:27 2000
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 02:44:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <u1hk8efz5qe.fsf@oliver.mit.edu>
Thanks Thomas, for the speedy and detailed reply. Sorry I didn't reply
as fast.
Excerpts from mail: 21-Jul-100 Re: Athena 8.4 install and .. Thomas
Bushnell, BSG@MIT (1346)
> When you use the default install, you are promising that your monitor
> can support an hsync range of 30-96 and vsync of 48-120. In order to
> support cluster's install requirements, we have to hard code *some*
> value in, that corresponds to the cluster workstations.
I had hoped that the cluster monitors were being correctly
auto-detected. I didn't know we still had to end up hard coding these
constants. Ugh.
I wonder if a bit of experimentation might provide numbers that are a
little closer to what more folks have on hand. I guess the trick is to
allow the long term solution of having <ctrl><alt>+ go to 1600x1280 from
1280x1024 while trying to be a little more conservative in the attached
monitors.
I am pleased to hear that the custom install has so much functionality.
I look forward to seeing the documentation.
-wdc
