From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 3 16:13:04 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7081216A4E1 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 16:13:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from atom.powers@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECC6243D55 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 16:12:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atom.powers@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id n29so1068483nfc for ; Sun, 03 Sep 2006 09:12:55 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Zetox3asSZNvODn5Wak4Dvz/IEkEW/NmlxkpXLDNE5QgLX6LgOmhih9ut558SE9+hZ6O8ctOPMWNZ/ZUVtS5zMl62CEzkDmZiPb1ia7NtiZKxV1EEudij/uU/52Fm5MAn12ps4aN7FD6AnCcMS7sXSk1wnhSqJuYN6nH1PYFyPY= Received: by 10.49.75.2 with SMTP id c2mr5605410nfl; Sun, 03 Sep 2006 09:12:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.67.14 with HTTP; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 09:12:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 09:12:55 -0700 From: "Atom Powers" To: "Oliver Iberien" In-Reply-To: <200609030901.40330.odilist@sonic.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200609030901.40330.odilist@sonic.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New widescreen monitor, old radeon card - will this not work? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 16:13:04 -0000 On 9/3/06, Oliver Iberien wrote: > As usual, as soon as I post, I discover the correct search string to get me to > the answer: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions%40freebsd.org/msg147148.html > > This poster even bought the same monitor I did. Does anyone know: Will newer > nvidia cards generally work at this resolution? It seems safest just to get > the one he did. > > > > I have a new monitor with the following specs: > > Horiz 31-87 kHz > > Vert 56-75 Hz > > 1680x1050@60Hz > > I don't know of any reason a less-that-eight-year-old Radeon card couldn't support that resolution. I think you only need <64MB video memory to support that resolution at 32bit color. Some monitors need extra settings in the config line though. I have recently tested 1680x1050,32bit color with Nvidia 6600, 6800, 7900 cards. (On MS Win, linux though. ) -- -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers--