1920x1080 resolution with mga driver [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 30/03/2011, at 16:33, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 02:11:46PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>> 
>> On 30/03/2011, at 13:15, Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
>>>   0n Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:40:30AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: 
>>> 
>>>> I guess I'm stuck with 1280x1024 for now.
>>>> Maybe I can dig up a PCIe 8x ATI or nVidia card from somewhere..
>>> 
>>> Im not sure if will still work, but in the days of using Matrox cards I used to:
>>> 
>>> 1. Download linux driver: http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/support/drivers/
>>> 
>>> 2. Place mga_drv.o and mga_hal.drv.o into /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/
>>>  (was /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ when i did it).
>>> 
>>> This used to work and allow me have to dual-head with mga.
>>> 
>>> Not sure about nowdays though - worth a shot.
>> 
>> Hmm I just emailed Supermicro and they claim it doesn't support 1920x1080 anyway, what a pain.
>> 
>> Time to look for an 8x PCIe card or saw some of the pins off a 16x one I suppose.
> 
> I don't think there exists *any* PCI-E x8 graphics cards, but there do
> exist some x1 cards.  See for example

I did see hints that some exist via googling but they are very rare.

> http://www.club-3d.com/index.php/products/reader.en/product/radeon-hd-4350-pci-e-x1-edition.html

Ahh neat, thanks :)
The other option is to hack off half the pins of a 16x card. Just don't expect a monster high power card to work, but a low power one should be fine.

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