Re: New widescreen monitor, old radeon card - will this not work?

2006-09-04 Thread Atom Powers
On 9/3/06, Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, you'd think, but no. I got a $50 GeForce 6200 LE/256M card and it works, as long as I use the proprietary driver. With the standard nv driver that xorgconfig came up with, it was just as bad as the Radeon. The nvidia config utility did not

Re: New widescreen monitor, old radeon card - will this not work?

2006-09-04 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Monday 04 September 2006 08:18, Atom Powers wrote: It wouldn't, because it doesn't know what kind of monitor you have. Take a look at the modline in this post to see what I'm talking about. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=69920 I don't remember what that all means, but

Re: New widescreen monitor, old radeon card - will this not work?

2006-09-03 Thread Oliver Iberien
As usual, as soon as I post, I discover the correct search string to get me to the answer: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions%40freebsd.org/msg147148.html This poster even bought the same monitor I did. Does anyone know: Will newer nvidia cards generally work at this resolution? It

Re: New widescreen monitor, old radeon card - will this not work?

2006-09-03 Thread Atom Powers
On 9/3/06, Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As usual, as soon as I post, I discover the correct search string to get me to the answer: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions%40freebsd.org/msg147148.html This poster even bought the same monitor I did. Does anyone know: Will newer

Re: New widescreen monitor, old radeon card - will this not work?

2006-09-03 Thread Oliver Iberien
Yes, you'd think, but no. I got a $50 GeForce 6200 LE/256M card and it works, as long as I use the proprietary driver. With the standard nv driver that xorgconfig came up with, it was just as bad as the Radeon. The nvidia config utility did not add extra lines to the config file,