[LUAU] new display card needed

Jim Thompson jim at netgate.com
Tue Jan 17 19:00:20 PST 2006


My company found itself with a bit of cash at the end of the year and  
decided to buy me a Dell 2405 display.
This has a native resolution of 1920x1200.  It works great on the  
Mac, but I'd like to also use it on the linux box.

'lspci -v' reports:

0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon  
R300 ND [Radeon 9700 Pro] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
         Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 0002
         Flags: bus master, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency  
255, IRQ 16
         Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
         I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
         Memory at f5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
         Capabilities: [58] AGP version 3.0
         Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R300  
[Radeon 9700 Pro] (Secondary)
         Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 0003
         Flags: stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel
         Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [disabled]  
[size=128M]
         Memory at f5010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled]  
[size=64K]
         Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2


Relavent parts of the Xorg.log file state:
(II) fglrx(0): Connected Display1: DFP on internal TMDS
(II) fglrx(0): Display1 EDID data ---------------------------
(II) fglrx(0): Manufacturer: DEL  Model: a010  Serial#: 810826067
(II) fglrx(0): Year: 2005  Week: 41
(II) fglrx(0): EDID Version: 1.3
(II) fglrx(0): Digital Display Input
(II) fglrx(0): Max H-Image Size [cm]: horiz.: 52  vert.: 33
(II) fglrx(0): Gamma: 2.20
(II) fglrx(0): DPMS capabilities: StandBy Suspend Off; RGB/Color Display
(II) fglrx(0): Default color space is primary color space
(II) fglrx(0): First detailed timing is preferred mode
(II) fglrx(0): redX: 0.640 redY: 0.330   greenX: 0.300 greenY: 0.607
(II) fglrx(0): blueX: 0.149 blueY: 0.060   whiteX: 0.312 whiteY: 0.328
(II) fglrx(0): Supported VESA Video Modes:
(II) fglrx(0): 720x400 at 70Hz
(II) fglrx(0): 640x480 at 60Hz
(II) fglrx(0): 640x480 at 75Hz
(II) fglrx(0): 800x600 at 60Hz
(II) fglrx(0): 800x600 at 75Hz
(II) fglrx(0): 1024x768 at 60Hz
(II) fglrx(0): 1024x768 at 75Hz
(II) fglrx(0): 1280x1024 at 75Hz
(II) fglrx(0): Manufacturer's mask: 0
(II) fglrx(0): Supported Future Video Modes:
(II) fglrx(0): #0: hsize: 1280  vsize 1024  refresh: 60  vid: 32897
(II) fglrx(0): #1: hsize: 1600  vsize 1200  refresh: 60  vid: 16553
(II) fglrx(0): #2: hsize: 1152  vsize 864  refresh: 75  vid: 20337
(II) fglrx(0): #3: hsize: 1680  vsize 1050  refresh: 60  vid: 179
(II) fglrx(0): Supported additional Video Mode:
(II) fglrx(0): clock: 154.0 MHz   Image Size:  519 x 324 mm
(II) fglrx(0): h_active: 1920  h_sync: 1968  h_sync_end 2000  
h_blank_end 2080 h_border: 0
(II) fglrx(0): v_active: 1200  v_sync: 1203  v_sync_end 1209  
v_blanking: 1235 v_border: 0
(II) fglrx(0): Serial No: T61335A40T9S
(II) fglrx(0): Monitor name: DELL 2405FPW
(II) fglrx(0): Ranges: V min: 56  V max: 76 Hz, H min: 30  H max: 81  
kHz, PixClock max 170 MHz
(II) fglrx(0): End of Display1 EDID data --------------------

http://www.ati.com/products/radeon9700/radeon9700pro/specs.html says  
that it should run 1920x1200 @ 75Hz.  For some reason X.org doesn't  
see it that way.

So I guess I'm looking for a new 'graphics' card.

I don't care (much) about 3D, but I do like my text to draw fast. I  
prefer DVI ports to VGA ports. I run Ubuntu (but will soon reload  
with kbuntu) on this machine.  (3GHz P4, 1GB ram, 2x200GB SATA  
drives, all in a Shuttle SFF case.)

I've had this card in various machines since early 2001 (my days at  
Musenki).

Anyone got recommendations?

jim



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