[ale] I want to move my Sun Sony GDP 20D10 20" monitor from my sparc 10 to a pc

[Armsby John-G16665]

I want to move my Sun Sony GDP 20D10 20" monitor from my sparc 10 to a pc.  

I know I need an adapter to enable 13W3 to connect to the HD15 video input on the pc.  I can get that here   http://www.si87.com/Wizards/monitorcable.html.

I know I need a video card which will support the fixed frequency requirements of this monitor.  These folks http://www.si87.com/Products/Videocards/Leaves/sony/sonygdm20d10.html 

claim they have just the ticket, their Saturn GL card, composed of a Permedia 2 chipset, 8 meg, PCI, and manufactured by 3Dlabs  will work great.

My concern is that RedHat 6.1 Intel Linux drivers will be confused and befuddled.  I don't see any obvious compatibility with Saturn.  The Permedia 2 chipset is peppered in other manufacturers cards in the compatibility list.  I am not sure these cards support fixed frequency cards.  I am not sure if these Linux X servers will like the monitor or not.  I see some commercial drivers but don't want to spend any more money than I have to.

Has anyone done what I want to do?  What did you do?  What card are you using?  What Xserver did you use?  Did it work well with Win98 (I will dual boot) ??

There were some earlier posts on this subject but I wasn't up to speed.  My sparc is a boat anchor.


John


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