Subject: Re: video cards
To: Brian Asemi <asemisldkfj@gmail.com>
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/25/2006 11:37:54
Brian Asemi said:

>I guess I'll post this just for the sake of getting it out there.  I 
>have a card based on the nVidia MX 440, and it's worked great with every 
>BSD using the nv driver, and powers my monitor which runs at 1600x1200.

I guess what I'm really wondering about is why does an ATI Rage MAXX have no
problem with 1280x1024 on a NEC and a DiamondPoint CRT monitor that are both
rated for 1280x1024, while a newer Radeon card just won't. It is Xfree86 and
Xorg that are saying, in the log file, that both of those monitors don't
have a high enough horizontal frequency for 1280x1024. 

The ATI Rage MAXX is on a system running NetBSD 1.6.1 and Xfree 4.2.0. I have
used both CRT monitors without a problem on that machine at 1280x1024, as well
as the current monitor, a Sony SDM-S75, at the same resolution. I bought the
DiamondPoint CRT less than a year ago. 

Is this an Xfree/Xorg software problem or a hardware problem?

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