[Openchrome-devel] [Bug 91966] No signal to monitor with X and openchrome using VX855 chipset graphics

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91966

--- Comment #281 from Christopher <laserhawk64 at gmail.com> ---
Fascinating! Feel free to be technical with me -- I have The Google and Wiki
and the ability to ask questions if needed ;) Although my background is mostly
hardware at the wires-and-chips level, and rooted somewhat in chips from the
mid-Seventies through about the mid- to late Eighties, I'm always interested in
hearing about code and what it does how, because that's a real weak point of
mine -- I have basically useless coding knowledge. (remember MS QuickBASIC PDS
7.1...? Yeah, that. Sadly.) I'd love to take that and make it useful... the
more I soak up, the more I know.

As for CRTs and other quaint-sounding equipment -- I'm quite familiar with
retro tech. I'll keep it short by mentioning simply that I have two Commodore
64s I keep meaning to fix -- memory issues, the DRAMs in those are known to get
a bit addled after a while -- and I'm working on building a Signetics 2650
based homebrew board as well. The 2650, by the way, is an interesting CPU that
I don't think got its due attention -- not much was done with it. A pity, since
it's got on-chip serial! (...and, lucky for me, it got used as a pinball game
controller a little -- the official hobbyist's ROM image from Signetics, PIPBUG
it was called, still exists if you look for it, because of that. It's actually
Googleable!)

I could say oh so much more but that's best kept off the comment thread as (a)
I get tremendously long-winded with this stuff and (b) it's off-topic anyways.
If you're interested... you have my email. (I'd love to get some schematic
checking done on that 2650 homebrew ;) )

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