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On 24/08/10 03:38, Bill Longman wrote: |
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> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com |
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> <mailto:kogorman@×××××.com>> wrote: |
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> I had to replace an 4:3 Westinghouse monitor this weekend. I got |
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> a new ASUS VH242H, which is very wide. But Xorg is still running |
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> 1280x1024, instead of the monitor's normal 1920x1080, according to |
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> xorg logs because of lack of video memory (using the ATI on the |
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> motherboard). I can make the screen use a 4:3 aspect ratio, so |
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> I'm up and running, much better than I started, but I'd like to do |
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> better. |
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> I guess I've gotta look for a video card, but all I have is PCIX |
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> slots, so I don't want to put a lot of money into it (I'll be |
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> upgrading the mobo when finances permit -- which is not right now.) |
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> Any ideas? |
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> You'd kinda think that since AGP is kinda sorta a beefed up version of |
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> PCI, kinda sorta like PCI-X, you ought to be able to find a boatload |
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> of cards like this for the cheap on eBay. But finding one is like |
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> finding hen's teeth. The only one I've found is a 3.3/5V 32/64bit |
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> 33/66MHz ATI card and they're about $US500. The company that makes |
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> them does them for multi-head displays such as NOC displays, etc, so |
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> if you can't spare the change for a new mobo, then five hundred bucks |
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> for a video card in a worn-out bus format is probably out of the question. |
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> <rant>I've been looking for one for years now because I have this |
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> great Dell server that just keeps on running and running but it has |
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> these beautiful 64 bit PCI-X slots just calling out for a decent video |
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> card -- but not AGP!</rant> |
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Have you tried setting different modelines etc using cvt and xrandr? |
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