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

[Lionel Flandrin]

Thierry Herbelot <thierry at herbelot.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> 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 ?
>
> 	TfH

  I have a radeon 9600 for my dual head display @ 1920x1440, the 3d is
partly broken tho, but as the man page of radeon(4x) states:

,----
| Option "RenderAccel" "boolean"
|        Enables or disables hardware Render acceleration.   This  driver
|        does  not  support  component alpha (subpixel) rendering.  It is
|        only supported  on  Radeon  series  up  to  and  including  9200
|        (9500/9700  and  newer  unsupported).   The default is to enable
|        Render acceleration.
`----

  So it might work with your 9200 card. I don't know why you say the
radeon support is broken in Xorg 7.3, it works well here. The only
problem I've got was because of an nforce 2 related breakage in the
FreeBSD kernel itself, a patch has been posted on this mailing list a
couple of weeks ago if you're concerned.

  I hope that helps,
--
Lionel Flandrin