In message <a5d587fb0602060254r44e335e9rb6a243984f96ca23@mail.gmail.com>, Micha
l Suchanek writes:


>If you use a single link card and/or cable, the maximum resolution youcan norm
>ally get is something like 1400x1100 (I do not recall theexact numbers). I sus
>pect these old cards are no way near dual, youwould need at least some of the 
>P-series cards if not full Parhelia.But these are completely useless with a fr
>ee system because there areno free drivers, and the commercial ones are probab
>ly quite poor. Atleast the matrox supplied and commercial drivers for G-series
> I triedwere unusable.
>It is possible to get higher resolution with some single link cards(and some d
>isplays) by crafting a vidoemode with shorter blankingintervals. The Windows d
>rivers for ATI 9200 and 9250 Radeons arecapable of displaying modes like 1900x
>1200 on certain Dell monitors. Ithink I read some Matrox cards can do somethin
>g similar. But it iscertainly not guaranteed that any card-monitor combination
> will work.


I don't think that's right.  I'm running 1600x1200, with an ATI Radeon 
X300 (RV370) 5B60 PCIE, a Dell monitor flat panel, a DVI cable, and xorg
from pkgsrc.  (XFree86 wouldn't do it.)  If I'm reading the log 
correctly, it's running at 162 Mhz.  The configuration is just what was 
generated by Xorg.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb