[LUAU] new display card needed

[Brian Chee]

While I can't remember which card worked, it does require a DUAL DVI-D video
interface to run....so physically it looks like two monitors but logically
it's one.

/brian chee

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Thompson" <jim at netgate.com>
To: <luau at lists.hosef.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 5:00 PM
Subject: [LUAU] new display card needed


>
> 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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