From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 30 06:50:27 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E85A7106564A for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 06:50:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (unknown [IPv6:2001:44b8:7c07:5581:266:e1ff:fe0c:8f16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 545E38FC13 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 06:50:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.gsoft.com.au (Ur.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.44]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p2U6nsef040653 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:19:55 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <20110330060315.GA52468@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:19:53 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <7AFE31C3-EA54-49FF-A294-2A793D2236B4@dons.net.au> <049300B7-9C27-4ABE-9CA6-AF069F915274@dons.net.au> <20110330024550.GB63105@stlux503.dsto.defence.gov.au> <0C4CBC26-B4BB-4C30-8EA8-279AB3114F52@dons.net.au> <20110330060315.GA52468@owl.midgard.homeip.net> To: Erik Trulsson X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) X-Spam-Score: -2.5 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1920x1080 resolution with mga driver [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 06:50:28 -0000 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. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C