From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 21 16:42:28 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EAA41065675 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:42:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f170.google.com (mail-bw0-f170.google.com [209.85.218.170]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BD9C8FC19 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:42:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: by bwz18 with SMTP id 18so4759631bwz.19 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 08:42:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=dHtolynojbBqsAJnvpOmTlsFxXmVKoLFO1qDFh6E+XY=; b=U/DyC/FChzh9k7L8LLkdKwL5zzVSpNK2tBNdFuDxlvwWmJ7XcGw8RtM1R4GA8toQNq LAWjhJSs4wwTztZb5meXP+I55b8DxU1lNL05IaZzyiMpUqp0fMN/za+27d2qF50AMnR5 k6rdgRJCm/AACqKIg/f9zl5d4/AEkXozPJv8w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=E1gWVdSxSC2DK1q38X1wxeHZYd1P9HNerfSrwUZ7LZyXDRYA+t/tb0KOmaQGcfVUU0 xs5dKC97i85lyUZzRItH1c7EUkJ7dTlXQGT0XLTCLapPqH+N6LLBNmcfVF9B1mI8EzYp w4bwLJpRHp6Sr754pQk6QYms5PlcYcx+2w1Vc= Received: by 10.223.109.20 with SMTP id h20mr3085143fap.41.1235234546168; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 08:42:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk [87.81.140.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m5sm8072619gve.22.2009.02.21.08.42.24 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 21 Feb 2009 08:42:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:42:21 +0000 From: RW To: ports@freebsd.org 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> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i386-portbld-freebsd7.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Determining if Nvidia graphics card supports widescreen modes X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:42:28 -0000 On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:09:52 +0100 "Alexey Shuvaev" wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 01:50:25PM +0000, RW wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:29:38 +0000 > > RW 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.