Driver for Sigma Laserview Display?

Driver for Sigma Laserview Display?

[Martin]

Since some years I use a `Sigma Laserview' (19" B&W monitor, 1600x1200)
with X11 and ISC Unix.  I like that display very much, the Sigma is
substantially more crisp than the Samsung 17GLs currently hooked to my
Plan 9 box (though the Samsung really isn't bad).

The Laserview has a proprietary display controller, for which I do not
have any real documentation, but on my Linux CD I've spotted an X11
driver for it.

      - How difficult would you think is a port of the Linux
	X11 driver to Plan 9?

I'm very experienced with C (nearly 15 years) but I never did any
programming of display device drivers.

      - Where to start?
      - Recommendations for books?
      - Any other takers?

--Martin

Driver for Sigma Laserview Display?

[Juergen]

In article <9509042208.AA08060@mwtech.rent-a-guru.de>
Martin.Weitzel@rent-a-guru.DE (Martin Weitzel) writes:

> Since some years I use a `Sigma Laserview' (19" B&W monitor,
> 1600x1200) with X11 and ISC Unix.
[...]

About the same applies to the Hyundai HGC-1280 display I have as the
only one in my PC. XFree86 knows this (non-standard) monochrome
display, driving it with 1280x1024 pixels.

I tried to boot the plan9 diskette from the demo kit, but it hung
after writing a single message. (Which I have forgotten now, and at
ehe moment my PC is torn into pieces for the sake of a friend who wants
to finish her dissertation with appropriate hardware.)

Is there any chance that someone has written or will write a driver
for the HGC-1280? I can't do it without this driver (bootstrapping
problem!), unless (next question) plan9 can work with the ancient
text-only IBM Monochrome Display Adapter, which is my only
alternative. Would *this* work?

-- 
Juergen Nickelsen