Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:42:21 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Determining if Nvidia graphics card supports widescreen modes Message-ID: <20090221164221.549a82f0@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20090216210952.GB85984@wep4035.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <20090216132938.274bf70d@gumby.homeunix.com> <20090216135025.6e3bed5e@gumby.homeunix.com> <20090216210952.GB85984@wep4035.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:09:52 +0100 "Alexey Shuvaev" <shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 01:50:25PM +0000, RW wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:29:38 +0000 > > RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > I need to replace my old CRT monitor. I suspect that my nvidia > > > GeForce FX 5700LE wont support a widescreen monitor, but is there > > > any way of finding-out what modes are supported. > > > > > > I don't really want to replace the card as it's agp, and they > > > seem to be relatively expensive these days. > > > I think video cards today support almost anything. I remeber I have > played with my GeForce4 420 Go (NV17 chipset) with manual Modeline-s > in xorg.conf. I was able to activate some totally crazy modes like > 2048x4 :) For the benefit of anyone Googling this thread it did work on a widescreen 1440x900 monitor.
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