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From: Juergen Nickelsen nickel@prz...
Subject: Driver for Sigma Laserview Display?
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 19:24:57 -0400

In article <9509042208.AA08060@mwt...>
Martin.Weitzel@ren... (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