[LUAU] new display card needed

Tue Jan 17 23:02:38 PST 2006

Hey Brian,

Yes, this is a dual display card (and it will drive two 1280x1024x24 
displays (I've done this, it may go to 1600x1280x24 x 2, but I've never 
tried this.)

It will drive a single monitor as well as it will drive two, at least at 
the lower resolutions.

The issue is the new monitor wants to be 1920x1200x24.   For some reason 
it won't go that high.

jim

Brian Chee wrote:

>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
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>>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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