From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 30 03:42:24 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A0E5106566B for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 03:42:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (unknown [IPv6:2001:44b8:7c07:5581:266:e1ff:fe0c:8f16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C54A8FC14 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 03:42:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.gsoft.com.au (Ur.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.44]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p2U3flN7023848 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:11:48 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <20110330024550.GB63105@stlux503.dsto.defence.gov.au> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:11:46 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <0C4CBC26-B4BB-4C30-8EA8-279AB3114F52@dons.net.au> References: <963D4E35-4D93-4AD0-91DF-C16BC7E1F47E@dons.net.au> <7AFE31C3-EA54-49FF-A294-2A793D2236B4@dons.net.au> <049300B7-9C27-4ABE-9CA6-AF069F915274@dons.net.au> <20110330024550.GB63105@stlux503.dsto.defence.gov.au> To: "Wilkinson, Alex" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) X-Spam-Score: -2.5 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1920x1080 resolution with mga driver [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 03:42:24 -0000 On 30/03/2011, at 13:15, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: > 0n Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:40:30AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:=20 >=20 >> I guess I'm stuck with 1280x1024 for now. >> Maybe I can dig up a PCIe 8x ATI or nVidia card from somewhere.. >=20 > Im not sure if will still work, but in the days of using Matrox cards = I used to: >=20 > 1. Download linux driver: = http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/support/drivers/ >=20 > 2. Place mga_drv.o and mga_hal.drv.o into = /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ > (was /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ when i did it). >=20 > This used to work and allow me have to dual-head with mga. >=20 > Not sure about nowdays though - worth a shot. Hmm I just emailed Supermicro and they claim it doesn't support = 1920x1080 anyway, what a pain. Time to look for an 8x PCIe card or saw some of the pins off a 16x one I = suppose. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C