From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 4 12:23:12 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 12:23:09 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from area51.v-wave.com (area51.v-wave.com [24.108.173.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9456E37B401 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:23:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 13881 invoked by uid 1001); 4 Dec 2000 20:23:07 -0000 Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 13:23:07 -0700 From: Chris Wasser To: Tim McMillen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TNT2 Message-ID: <20001204132307.B13844@skunkworks.area51-arpa.mil> References: <3A296462.18CB92E0@adelphia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from timcm@umich.edu on Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 01:09:26PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE Sender: flatline@area51.v-wave.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon 04 Dec 2000, Tim McMillen wrote: > > This is more of an Xfree86 issue so I recommend checking their > site too. The TNT2 has only generic support (ie not specifically card by > card.) that may or may not work well for that card. I would personally > recommend against it though. I have a cardex Riva TNT2 M64 and the best > resolution I can get in X is 800x600 even though the card and monitor can > do 1600x1200. I've heard the M64 is a "weaker" version of the TNT2 so > that may be part of the problem. > I want a card that works better, so I'm going to search through > XFree86's site and mailing lists and find the cheapest card I can that is > well supported and try that. FWIW Matrox cards are supposed to work > really well with XFree86, I just don't see any very cheap yet. Not sure what happened there, but I'm using a Diamond Viper 770 Ultra (32MB) and X works beautifully here. No resolution limitation such as you described. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message