Re: 1680x1050 support under FreeBSD (was Re: amd64 NVIDIA support in FreeBSD 7)

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 07:56:43PM -0500, Rod Person wrote:
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> Thierry Herbelot <thierry_at_herbelot.com> wrote:
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> > with less ambitious goals : what graphic card can I use these days to
> > drive my 1680x1050 LCD under X11 ? (I used to use my oldish radeon,
> > with an ATI9200, but the radeon support in xorg 7.3 seems to have
> > been broken for around 3 months and VESA does not drive 1680x1050)
> > does the xorg nv driver support 1680x1050 ?
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> I have a nvidia 7800gtx running at this resolution. I would think most
> of the newer cards will handle it. The nv driver in the 7.x series xorg
> are able do this resolution.

I have a 6600GE or something like that (low-ish end fanless
card) and I can't get the nv driver to go above 1280x1024, even
though my LCD screen's native resolution is 1600x1200.  It says
something (in the logs) about being prevented by bios, which
seems odd.  Did you have to put anything fancy in your xorg.conf
file to enable the higher resolution?

Cheers,

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Andrew