Subject: Re: video/display problems
To: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/08/1997 14:56:06
> 
> At 3:12 PM 9/8/97, wb2oyc@bellatlantic.net wrote:
> >    The monitor works fine with several Apple NuBus cards, but I
> >get nothing when its connected to the IIsi, so I'm again forced to
> >use the mono.
> 
> Are you using an Apple-brand video cable?  There are some sense pins that
> must be set to inform the display drivers what resolutions are possible.
> 
> If I remember correctly the Multiscan 14" was a replacement for the good
> old "High Res RGB" display and primarily runs at 640 X 480 @ 66Hz?
> Virtually every display driver ever made for a Mac should support this I
> would think.

Every driver will do 640x480@66, but since the monitor is a multi-sync,
it has a different pin configuration than the 640x480@66 one. Thus
the problem w/ old computers. They don't know what to do w/ it.

Take care,

Bill