Re: RE: [Nolug] Old monitor

On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 08:49, jdtiede@bellsouth.net wrote:
> I have already tried 640x480. That didn't work either.

Is it even a VGA monitor? Could it be EGA?

Also, what is "EIDE video"?

> ============================================================
> From: "Chuck" <ohchucki@bellsouth.net>
> Date: 2002/12/06 Fri PM 06:28:53 EST
> To: <nolug@joeykelly.net>
> Subject: RE: [Nolug] Old monitor
>
> I'm pretty sure the monitor will display correctly if you change the
> display resolution. Start off with 640x480 and move up resolutions
> incrementally.
>
>
> Chuck
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net] On
> Behalf Of jdtiede@bellsouth.net
> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 3:08 PM
> To: nolug@joeykelly.net
> Subject: [Nolug] Old monitor
>
>
> My late father's Zenith ZCM-1492 (late 80s?) worked o.k. for me on older
> equipment, i.e., using EISA video cards, but since I've upgraded to
> motherboards that take only PCI and AGP cards, it works during Linux 8.0
> setup, then degenerates to meaningless horizontal lines. It does the
> same thing on my other computer under W2K. Both have FIC AD11 mobos,
> Athlon 1600+ CPUs and PCI video cards (plain vanilla). Is there any way
> around this problem, or do I have to replace the monitor to use with
> newer cards?
> I remember that several years ago it wouldn't work with his then-new
> HP Pavilion so I switched monitors with him, as I was then using an EIDE
> video.
> My Sony 420GS works fine with both PCI cards.
> I have two AT boxes with mobos and 300MHz chips which worked when I
> took them out of service and a box of ISA-EISA cards if anyone wants to
> trade for a monitor that will work with my PCI cards.

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