It seems that manufacturers don't list resolution versus frequency for their
cards anymore. There is no easy way to find a card/monitor pair that will
do a specific resolution - in this case 1280x1024.

I have a ATI RADEON 9200 PCI video card in an amd64 box. It wouldn't do
1280x1024 in either NetBSD amd64 or Solaris 10 x86. I don't have the
log file from NetBSD, but looking at the logfile from Solaris it seems to
not recognize the RADEON 9200 because it is not an AGP card. It runs through
a lot of resolutions and rejects the for "hsync out of range". Which hsync,
card or monitor?

It was easier in the old days, just doing the X config file by hand.

Something is awfully broken with X or the the hardware.

On Sun, with Xorg, I get:

(WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:6:1) found
(--) Chipset ATI Radeon 9200PRO 5960 (AGP) found

(II) RADEON(0): Supported VESA Video Modes:
(II) RADEON(0): 720x400@70Hz
(II) RADEON(0): 720x400@88Hz
(II) RADEON(0): 640x480@60Hz
(II) RADEON(0): 640x480@67Hz
(II) RADEON(0): 640x480@72Hz
(II) RADEON(0): 640x480@75Hz
(II) RADEON(0): 800x600@56Hz
(II) RADEON(0): 800x600@60Hz
(II) RADEON(0): 800x600@72Hz
(II) RADEON(0): 800x600@75Hz
(II) RADEON(0): 832x624@75Hz
(II) RADEON(0): 1024x768@87Hz (interlaced)
(II) RADEON(0): 1024x768@60Hz
(II) RADEON(0): 1024x768@70Hz
(II) RADEON(0): 1024x768@75Hz

(II) RADEON(0): Supported Future Video Modes:
(II) RADEON(0): #0: hsize: 640  vsize 480  refresh: 85  vid: 22833
(II) RADEON(0): #1: hsize: 800  vsize 600  refresh: 85  vid: 22853
(II) RADEON(0): #2: hsize: 1024  vsize 768  refresh: 85  vid: 22881
(II) RADEON(0): #3: hsize: 1152  vsize 864  refresh: 75  vid: 20337
(II) RADEON(0): #4: hsize: 1280  vsize 960  refresh: 60  vid: 16513
(II) RADEON(0): #5: hsize: 1280  vsize 1024  refresh: 60  vid: 32897
(II) RADEON(0): Supported additional Video Mode:
(II) RADEON(0): clock: 94.5 MHz   Image Size:  315 x 236 mm
(II) RADEON(0): h_active: 1024  h_sync: 1072  h_sync_end 1168 h_blank_end 1376 h
_border: 0
(II) RADEON(0): v_active: 768  v_sync: 769  v_sync_end 772 v_blanking: 808 v_bor
der: 0
(II) RADEON(0): Ranges: V min: 50  V max: 120 Hz, H min: 30  H max: 70 kHz, PixC
lock max 120 MHz

(II) RADEON(0): Primary:
 Monitor   -- CRT
 Connector -- VGA
 DAC Type  -- Primary
 TMDS Type -- NONE
 DDC Type  -- VGA_DDC
(II) RADEON(0): Secondary:
 Monitor   -- NONE
 Connector -- DVI-I
 DAC Type  -- TVDAC/ExtDAC
 TMDS Type -- Internal
 DDC Type  -- DVI_DDC
(II) RADEON(0): PLL parameters: rf=2700 rd=12 min=20000 max=40000; xclk=20000
(WW) RADEON(0): Failed to detect secondary monitor, MergedFB/Clone mode disabled
(==) RADEON(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(II) RADEON(0): Validating modes on Primary head ---------
(II) RADEON(0): DefaultMonitor: Using hsync range of 30.00-70.00 kHz
(II) RADEON(0): DefaultMonitor: Using vrefresh range of 50.00-120.00 Hz
(II) RADEON(0): Clock range:  20.00 to 400.00 MHz

(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "1280x960" (hsync out of range)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (bad mode clock/interlace/doubl
escan)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "640x512" (bad mode clock/interlace/doubl
escan)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (hsync out of range)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "640x512" (bad mode clock/interlace/doubl
escan)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (hsync out of range)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "640x512" (bad mode clock/interlace/doubl
escan)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (hsync out of range)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (bad mode clock/interlace/doubl
escan)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (hsync out of range)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (bad mode clock/interlace/doubl
escan)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (hsync out of range)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (bad mode clock/interlace/doubl
escan)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (hsync out of range)

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