From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 3 19:22:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D35316A41F for ; Sat, 3 Dec 2005 19:22:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikedaniluk@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ED0143D6E for ; Sat, 3 Dec 2005 19:22:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikedaniluk@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s9so302014wxc for ; Sat, 03 Dec 2005 11:22:10 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=Tb4HGmYTjVdUAq0brEniKcTy6LY4eBe57Un5Gr6JchWnSiF7NiIBzzRIzzyhH+zVecI95ZInVUJ8u/pPN9cZwgmWnC3P1NVNuVleswnhPiTd/7UtE4sJqwRtYpj9DSa++Bko+XVqzZvOe7eIsPbqh26yqWPIRLfSGf9GEfKzTf0= Received: by 10.70.65.1 with SMTP id n1mr5242498wxa; Sat, 03 Dec 2005 11:22:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.116.12 with HTTP; Sat, 3 Dec 2005 11:22:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <356a62450512031122y47577bd7qc4db8c61de12f6c9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 14:22:10 -0500 From: Michael Daniluk To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: What to Consider when Purchasing an External Monitor X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 19:22:22 -0000 I am running FreeBSD 5.4 on a Dell inspiron 600m and am enjoying the experience thoroughly :) I recently purchased a Dell Docking station and I plan to get some external devices hooked up to it, including an external wide screen lcd monitor. I have never had a set up like this before, and I was wondering if you guys could help me out with a few issues... 1. I already have a monitor in mind. It is the viewsonic VA1912wb. It's native resolution is 1440x900.... Does anyone have experience with X Server running at this resolution? One of the reviews I read of the monitor was from someone running linux who encountered trouble at 1440x900? 2. Is it true that certain video cards only support certain resolutions (I imagine this is in fact true)? I looked at the site of my video adapter's manufacturer and this info was not present, I also did some extensive googling for this info and could not find it. Anyone know where I can find this? I am running a Radeon 9000, and if you happen to know off-hand what resolutions it supports, it would be quite cool if you can reply with that :) ... here are the lines of my dmesg output pertaining to my adapter: drm0: port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem 0xfcff0000-0xfcff ffff,0xe8000000-0xefffffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1 info: [drm] AGP at 0xe0000000 128MB info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.11.0 20020828 on minor 0 info: [drm] Loading R200 Microcode 3. Is there anything else I should consider in buying an external monitor in order to avoid or at least anticipate headache? Thanks a lot. ps - I know a lot of this stuff isn't totally pertinent to FreeBSD. I apolo= gize.