Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 08:58:28 -0800 From: Orion Hodson <orion@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Orion Hodson <orion@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual head graphics card recommendations sought Message-ID: <200303031658.h23GwS8J005460@puma.icir.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Mar 2003 16:19:44 GMT." <20030303161944.GJ6403@clan.nothing-going-on.org>
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/-- Nik Clayton wrote: | | --XyBMaHrM0hrbbr/O | Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii | Content-Disposition: inline | Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable | | Hi, | | Thanks for the reply. | | On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 05:39:32AM -0800, Orion Hodson wrote: | > | Can someone recommend a graphics card that can drive a TFT using DVI at | > | 1600x1200, and a CRT using an analogue connection at 1280x1024, at the | > | same time (dual head), and that's supported using XFree86? | | [...] | | > BTW, if you do go this route then when purchasing the Radeon VE/7000 care= | =20 | > needs to be taken that it is the multi-interface (DVI/SVGA/TV-Out) and no= | t the=20 | > unsupported split cable version. BTW, the release notes for XFree86 4.3= | =20 | > detail support for upto Radeon 9x00=20 | | It does? I'm looking at: | | http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status6.html#6 | | which says "Radeon", without qualifying it with any model numbers. Is | there some documentation I'm missing? http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/RELNOTES2.html#3 | OK. I've had a look through the ATI site, and found | | http://mirror.ati.com/products/builtdesktoppc.html | | which looks right. From there, the Radeon 9000 Pro seems appropriate..? | | I confess, I'm getting thrown by the acronyms. For example, does | | http://www.dabs.com/products/prod-info3-info.asp?&m=3Dy&quicklinx=3D28C= | TKK&refererid=3DKK | | look right? It seems that most of these sites have far too little | information about the product on them <sigh>. The manual on the ATI website for the Radeon 9000 Pro has pictures with the right connectors and the feature list on the Dabs link is fine, except it excludes svga, but maybe that's so obvious a feature that it's not listed. - Orion To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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