Apple Cinema Display on Fedora Core 1?

[David L Norris]

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

-- 
 David Norris
  http://www.webaugur.com/dave/
  ICQ - 412039
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