Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 08:18:21 -0700 From: "Atom Powers" <atom.powers@gmail.com> To: "Oliver Iberien" <odilist@sonic.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New widescreen monitor, old radeon card - will this not work? Message-ID: <df9ac37c0609040818v444fd375r315d54caa0ed5865@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200609032016.39389.odilist@sonic.net> References: <200609030901.40330.odilist@sonic.net> <df9ac37c0609030912u2ba7ec1kbde48c3b724a8e0b@mail.gmail.com> <200609032016.39389.odilist@sonic.net>
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On 9/3/06, Oliver Iberien <odilist@sonic.net> wrote: > Yes, you'd think, but no. I got a $50 GeForce 6200 LE/256M card and it works, > as long as I use the proprietary driver. With the standard nv driver that > xorgconfig came up with, it was just as bad as the Radeon. > > The nvidia config utility did not add extra lines to the config file, > incidentally. It wouldn't, because it doesn't know what kind of monitor you have. Take a look at the modline in this post to see what I'm talking about. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=69920 I don't remember what that all means, but that card should be able to support that resolution. Note: The monitor I'm using now, ViewSonic vx2025wm, shows completely different behavior whether I use the VGA or DVI input; for example, MS Widows simply would not recognize that it was capable of 1680x1050 until I got the DVI input to work. ( To get the DVI to work I had to shut everything down, unplugged, for a few minutes and boot it all back up wit the DVI cable, only, installed.) -- -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers--
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