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Date:      Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:19:53 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <darius@dons.net.au>
To:        Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 1920x1080 resolution with mga driver [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Message-ID:  <D71A7EA4-C58A-4246-BB73-C61886572E23@dons.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <20110330060315.GA52468@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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On 30/03/2011, at 16:33, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 02:11:46PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>>=20
>> On 30/03/2011, at 13:15, Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
>>>   0n Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:40:30AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:=20=

>>>=20
>>>> I guess I'm stuck with 1280x1024 for now.
>>>> Maybe I can dig up a PCIe 8x ATI or nVidia card from somewhere..
>>>=20
>>> Im not sure if will still work, but in the days of using Matrox =
cards I used to:
>>>=20
>>> 1. Download linux driver: =
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/support/drivers/
>>>=20
>>> 2. Place mga_drv.o and mga_hal.drv.o into =
/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/
>>>  (was /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ when i did it).
>>>=20
>>> This used to work and allow me have to dual-head with mga.
>>>=20
>>> Not sure about nowdays though - worth a shot.
>>=20
>> Hmm I just emailed Supermicro and they claim it doesn't support =
1920x1080 anyway, what a pain.
>>=20
>> Time to look for an 8x PCIe card or saw some of the pins off a 16x =
one I suppose.
>=20
> I don't think there exists *any* PCI-E x8 graphics cards, but there do
> exist some x1 cards.  See for example

I did see hints that some exist via googling but they are very rare.

> =
http://www.club-3d.com/index.php/products/reader.en/product/radeon-hd-4350=
-pci-e-x1-edition.html

Ahh neat, thanks :)
The other option is to hack off half the pins of a 16x card. Just don't =
expect a monster high power card to work, but a low power one should be =
fine.

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