VR241 and X.Org

[Tore Sinding Bekkedal]

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 22:41 +0000, Tony Duell wrote:
> > I'm playing around with a VR241 - the colour monitor bit of the VT241 -
> > and trying to make it work as a standard video monitor. It has two pairs
> It _is_ a standard video monitor (it's actually a Hitachi chassis inside...)
> > of RGB+sync inputs, and an "INT/EXT" (presumably sync) toggle switch.
> Yes, that switch selects between separate composite sync on the fourth 
> BNC socket and sync-on-green.

Aha - SOG. Thank you.

> > I have been unable to find any specifications for this monitor online. I
> > don't think the Monitor Database one is correct - if it is, I'm doing
> > something wrong.
> It's a normal TV rate (that is, 15.7kHz horizontal, 60Hz vertical) RGB 
> analogue monitor.

Aha.

> > Is it possible to hook this thing up to a PC? Is there anything I need
> > to bear in mind when configuring X? 
> It will not sunc to nromal VGA frequencies. Period. I cna't think of a PC 
> video adapter that will easily drive it, either.

I wasn't attempting to get it to - some PC VAs can, I believe, output
composite sync or Sync on Green. The options are certainly there in the
X configuration file. And I have previously gotten my card to output PAL
and NTSC timings.

Cheers,
-Tore :)