Does a Cinema Display work under Linux?

[David A. Gatwood]

On Wed, 3 May 2000, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:

> > I have been loosely following the discussion about the new updated Sawtooth
> > mainboards and noticed that several people seem to be unable to use BootX on
> > those new machines.

I believe they determined that it was a bug in the ROM image included with
MacOS 9.0.4.  If you're having this problem you might want to grab an
older ROM image from somebody for whom BootX does work.  :-)


> > Now I must assume that a Cinema Display won't 'voluntarily' work under Linux.
>
> Basically, the accellerated aty128 drivers don't recognize the digital
> output. (I had this problem with a 15" digital flat panel).
>
> I've heard that it may work with offb, but one is limited to whatever
> resoultion OF happens to use.

I've been doing it w/ the no video drivers setting and Xpmac.  Obviously,
you're limited with whatever res you were in with MacOS, but that's not
_that_ big a problem, since at least the studio displays only offer one
resolution. I would expect the Cinema displays to be similar, but I'm not
sure.


Later,
David

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