From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 7 8:47:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D079137B421 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 08:47:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (contactdish.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fB7GlUx14608; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 17:47:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <000601c17f3e$df1faee0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: , "Richard E. Hawkins" References: <200112071635.fB7GZNA06644@fac13.ds.psu.edu> Subject: Re: video card for 2048x1536 at 85hz? (rage128 or radeon?) Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 17:47:30 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Richard writes: > The motherboard will be the dual athlon tyan, > whose video isn't up to what I need. We're > getting the 21" sony, and I want to be able to > drive it at the full 2048x1536@85hz. You're wasting your time. Even at a stripe pitch of 0.23 mm, which would be very good for a monitor (my own Sony is 0.26), the highest resolution you can support on a 21" monitor is about 1700x1275; anything beyond that, and individual pixels will be concealed by the phosphor stripes. The best I can do on my 20" Sony is 1600x1200, and it just so happens that each pixel just about covers a phosphor triad, so there is no point in going any further for a monitor this size.(I'm happy to report, though, that the Sony monitor still manages to resolve individual pixels, even at this rock-bottom minimum size.) So, unless you plan to get at least a 26" monitor, 2048x1536 will do you no good at all, and may even present problems (because details covering individual pixels will not be visible on the monitor). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message