* Driver for Sigma Laserview Display?
@ 1995-09-05 23:24 Juergen
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From: Juergen @ 1995-09-05 23:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
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
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* Driver for Sigma Laserview Display?
@ 1995-09-04 22:08 Martin
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From: Martin @ 1995-09-04 22:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
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
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