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Title: gdm-20d11 woes
Post by: gmillerd on January 09, 2003, 01:57:52 am

i have a sgi indy with a wonderful sgi monitor (sony gdm20d11). unfortunately xmame isnt going to work on my indy, i am told, although it would be nice to have it as a dedicated digdug machine.

i would like to salvage the monitor however. does anyone have a recomendation for a graphics card that will support my monitor? i have a sun2vga converter/adapter. i gather the sync on green issue might be a problem still.

which i gather is this:

  Res.    1280x1024     1152x900     1280x1024     1152x900
    Hor.    81.1 kHz      71.8 kHz     71.7 kHz      61.8 kHz
    Vert.     76 Hz         77 Hz        67 Hz         66 Hz

thanks very much

Title: Re:gdm-20d11 woes
Post by: BobA on January 09, 2003, 02:29:21 am

Here is a link with some info on running the unit on a PC.  They mention quite a few video cards but of course the company sells their own card as a solution as well. They are pushing their card over the high end cards of the other manufacturers.

http://www.mirage-mmc.com/direct/US/itm00045.htm (http://www.mirage-mmc.com/direct/US/itm00045.htm)

I run a Sun 17 inch multisync with only required a small change to combine the H and V sync of the PC to get a composite sync.

Good Luck

BobA

Title: Re:gdm-20d11 woes
Post by: Dave_K. on January 09, 2003, 02:39:00 am

According to this change log xmame has been tested and runs on SGI indy.

http://x.mame.net/changes-unix.html (http://x.mame.net/changes-unix.html)

Title: Re:gdm-20d11 woes
Post by: gmillerd on January 10, 2003, 04:30:21 am

thanks everyone ... guess getting a dedicated card might be the answer.

well i have irix v5.3, no IDO for making my own, and only 32mb ram (which will probably work since i have 32mb ram to run mame on a win98 celeron just fine)

if i recall the compilation notes stated v6.x was needed which makes sense.