From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 4 15:21:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A7F916A4DE for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 15:21:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from atom.powers@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9371D43E95 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 15:18:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atom.powers@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id n29so1227068nfc for ; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 08:18:21 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=sOuAsnMDp5pUdM8GC5tomUB2A1JkbO2S5GcxOF9500vKVhjnFtTU8YKP9aorXHdk+G9KGkH9ALYPhWMrBHPL6BNwdaxlntV7vPbwRXzfmPq7UCgTT4YHMoRJBCoFiUevyMuhUdcF38AQhe5hgLXVkMq2ZPW+gzEHPjYYpHBr760= Received: by 10.49.8.10 with SMTP id l10mr6784439nfi; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 08:18:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.67.14 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 08:18:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 08:18:21 -0700 From: "Atom Powers" To: "Oliver Iberien" In-Reply-To: <200609032016.39389.odilist@sonic.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200609030901.40330.odilist@sonic.net> <200609032016.39389.odilist@sonic.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New widescreen monitor, old radeon card - will this not work? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:21:43 -0000 On 9/3/06, Oliver Iberien wrote: > Yes, you'd think, but no. I got a $50 GeForce 6200 LE/256M card and it works, > as long as I use the proprietary driver. With the standard nv driver that > xorgconfig came up with, it was just as bad as the Radeon. > > The nvidia config utility did not add extra lines to the config file, > incidentally. It wouldn't, because it doesn't know what kind of monitor you have. Take a look at the modline in this post to see what I'm talking about. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=69920 I don't remember what that all means, but that card should be able to support that resolution. Note: The monitor I'm using now, ViewSonic vx2025wm, shows completely different behavior whether I use the VGA or DVI input; for example, MS Widows simply would not recognize that it was capable of 1680x1050 until I got the DVI input to work. ( To get the DVI to work I had to shut everything down, unplugged, for a few minutes and boot it all back up wit the DVI cable, only, installed.) -- -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers--