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Personal Iris - set screen resolution? - GeekDot - 08-24-2018

Hey Gang,

Thanks to gijoe77 helping out with a proper Irix 5.3 image my PI is running like new again... Ahhh, those 35MHz are just sooooo blazing fast. Much faster than my A/UX Q950 :-D

One thing nagging me though is that I can't change the screen resolution to 1280x1024 it's stuck at 1024x768, even it should be able to (GR1.5, Z-Buffer).
<I>hinv</I> is telling me something about "small monitor options installed" - and Google does not know anything about this option. Do you guys?

So far I tried to no avail:
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• set monitor to "h" in PROM</LI>
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• <I>setmon 1280x1024_60 </I> - sceen flickers for half a sec and that's it</LI>
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• 3 different TFTs</LI>

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Could that s"mall monitor option" be a jumper I cannot find? As always: Thanks for helping!

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Re: Personal Iris - set screen resolution? - dexter1 - 08-24-2018

<URL url="https://hardware.majix.org/computers/sgi.pi/4d25.shtml">https://hardware.majix.org/computers/sgi.pi/4d25.shtml shows that this is certainly possible: That is an 4D/20 with eclipse.
It may be an effect of monitor ID sensing pins connected to the GFX board. Do you use an 13W3 adapter to DB-15? Or do you have a monitor with native 13W3?
Can you post the output of 'gfxinfo' ?

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Re: Personal Iris - set screen resolution? - jan-jaap - 08-24-2018

A Personal IRIS with GR1.5 graphics only has three BNCs to connect the monitor, not 13W3. No monitor ID pins, and no other way for the monitor to 'talk' to the SGI. It works with whatever the SGI puts out, or it doesn't, but that's it.

'setmon' format options for the 4D/35:

(RE2 is not RealityEngine2, but one of the Turbo option chips). I think the PROM variable "monitor" value "h" or "H" and from IRIX "setmon 60HZ" ought to do it. Oh, and a 4D/35 can absolutely do 1280x1024.

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Re: Personal Iris - set screen resolution? - computron - 08-24-2018

if i remember correctly, you are stucked in 1024x768 while using the VGA connector.

1280*1024 is available with the BNC sog connectors

Cheers

Eve

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Re: Personal Iris - set screen resolution? - GeekDot - 08-24-2018

<QUOTE author="computron" post_id="2821" time="1535118494" user_id="181">

computron post_id=2821 time=1535118494 user_id=181 Wrote:if i remember correctly, you are stucked in 1024x768 while using the VGA connector.
1280*1024 is available with the BNC sog connectors

Heureka! I feel enlighted!! Thanks Eve, this is definitely the the culprit... [get on hard-hat, digging down into basement, cable-corner...]

Cheers and thanks to all who helped!

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