Re: Hardware question - monitors

On 31 Dec 2005 "JCC" <foneyaddress@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a problem. I recently purchased a used RISCOS machine (think it's a
> Kinetic running RISCOS 4.03) but ...
>
> the reason I'm a bit sketchy on the details is that I've not been able to
> find a decent monitor to run it on. I have some sight issues and usually
> use a 32" - yes 32" monitor which won't support whatever mode it defaults
> to. I've found an old 17" monitor (that I use with my Sparcs) that works
> fine - but 17" is hardly ideal.

Switch on holding 4 on the numeric keypad to make it generate a VGA signal.
If that doesn't work try + or - on the keypad to change the sync type. If
this works you can then make the changes permenant by:-

*Configure MonitorType 4
*Configure Sync 0 (or 1)
*Configure Mode 28

> I've found an old 17" monitor (that I use with my Sparcs) that works
> fine - but 17" is hardly ideal.

If its Risc PC with the default video system, theres not much point using
anything bigger as its only capable of quite low resolutions:-

Normal Can do
256 colours 1280x1024 1600x1200
32K colours 1024x768 1152x896
16M colours 800x600 800x600

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