The reall issue with apples newer displays is the the pull 28volts dc over the dislay cable to power the monitor. no video-card will accomidate that without the appropriate connector on the card and mainboard, and a suitable power supply (basically a mac). alternativly you can use a suitable dvi-adc adapter (http://www.smalldog.com/product/41337)with a video card with a dvi output. for linux with open source drivers an ati radeon 9000pro is a nice card... personally I found the studio 23" monitor to be somewhat underwhelming compared to some of the alternatives in that price range but displays are a highly individualized taste. joelja On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, David L Norris wrote: > On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 01:01, Christopher Bottaro wrote: > > well, it took a month for me to realize that i like linux much better > > than os x (gimmie back my kde and gnu stuff, damnit! ;) and now i want > > a linux machine again. > > Install Linux on the Mac? (YellowDog? Debian PPC? I'm sure I read > something about someone using some version of Fedora Core on PPC.) The > obvious disadvantage is that you may have to rebuild third party > packages from SRPM and Intel-binary-only software would not work. > > > correct me if my terminology is wrong or whatever. but its a DV > > monitor and only accepts DV input. so to use with a standard SVGA > > graphics card, i need some kinda converter cable or a video card with > > DV output. can anyone suggest a good, cheap video card to do this? or > > should i not bother and go with the converting cable? > > Which model monitor? Are the screen dimensions 4:3 or is it 16:9 > (widescreen)? > > Maybe you could use one of the ATI Radeon AGP cards sold for Macintosh > systems? I've used ATI's VGA video cards on my PowerMac with no problem > (under Linux). That's an expensive maybe, though. > > > the problem the IT guys had was with the xserver (of course). the > > display worked fine until the xserver started, then it just displayed a > > bunch of noise. > > Sounds like they came close to making it work. Maybe you need some > special modelines in the X config. Also, you may need to boot the > kernel in framebuffer mode (vga=something). My laptop's HPA display is > full of magenta colored snow if I don't boot into a framebuffer, for > example. > > Here's some info on the 23 inch Cinema: > http://www.gubbe.ch/linux/dev-cinema23.php > > Google finds a bunch of modeline info floating around: > http://www.google.com/search?q=apple+cinema+modeline > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2
