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

[Kip Macy]

On Dec 12, 2007 6:40 PM, Mark Kirkwood <markir at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> Thierry Herbelot wrote:
> >
> > 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 ?
> >
>
>
> I'm using a radeon 9600 Pro driving a display at 1680x1050. I was using
> a 9500 before that - both seem to work fine with Xorg 7.3. I've also
> experimented with a 9800 Pro - which also works fine (but generates too
> much heat, requiring active cooling whereas the 9600 does not).
>
> My experience has been that certainly older ATI cards are fine.


On the topic of newer cards:
I have a FireGL V3600 - it works just fine with radeonhd at 1920x1200
(single-link) on amd64, radeonhd doesn't have support for dual-link so
I can't use it at 2580x1600. The atombios-support branch of the ati
driver has dual link support and works for some people, but crashes
for me in the atombios parser.

     -Kip