Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:06:07 +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: <9E1325AE-A207-45AB-B712-87DF1024A7D9@dons.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20110330090255.GA53126@owl.midgard.homeip.net> References: <7AFE31C3-EA54-49FF-A294-2A793D2236B4@dons.net.au> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103290745390.54312@wonkity.com> <049300B7-9C27-4ABE-9CA6-AF069F915274@dons.net.au> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103291805310.56640@wonkity.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103291809420.56640@wonkity.com> <D4F4F46A-F441-49E3-9A73-70FCB4A13C7E@dons.net.au> <20110330024550.GB63105@stlux503.dsto.defence.gov.au> <0C4CBC26-B4BB-4C30-8EA8-279AB3114F52@dons.net.au> <20110330060315.GA52468@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <D71A7EA4-C58A-4246-BB73-C61886572E23@dons.net.au> <20110330090255.GA53126@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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On 30/03/2011, at 19:32, Erik Trulsson wrote: >> 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. >=20 > Actually I think all of those extra pins are for signals and not for > power, so the only thing you would lose with a 'shorter' slot is > performance. Hmm I thought it was both but apparently not. > Another thing you could (at least in theory) do is the remove the > rearmost bit of plastic from the slot on the motherboard so a longer > card could fit. I do know that there exist some motherboards with There is also.. http://www.adexelec.com/pciexp.htm > 'open' rear-ends of PCI-E x4 slots precisley to make it possible put a > longer card there. (Assuming it does not interfere with any other > components on the motherboard anyway.) Interesting.. I'd prefer to modify a $50 video card instead of a $300 = motherboard though :) > The general rule with PCI-E is that if you can physically fit a card > into a slot it should work. (Althouh there do of course exist > exceptions with some cards and motherboards.) Yeah. >=20 >=20 >=20 > --=20 > <Insert your favourite quote here.> > Erik Trulsson > ertr1013@student.uu.se >=20 -- 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
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