On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > Hi, > I'm looking for a dual head DVI card that will run 1600x1200 on each > panel (a pair of Dell 20"'s). As far as I can tell most cards DVI only > goes upto 1280x1024. > > I seem to have a choice of either a Matrox Parhelia (which they have a > driver for); but it is a bit expensive and I'm not into the 3D graphics > stuff so it seems a waste.
I think anything will have lots of 3D; the waste is in the 10bit "gigacolor" stuff; I doubt that flat panels actually have that many colours. http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/g450_mms/home.cfm suggests that the Matrox G450MMS would do. That page has a footnote: **DVI panels must have support for reduced blankings / 1280 x 1024 maximum digital resolution otherwise which might well apply to other cards too. I think the point is that VESA video modes waste a lot of the dot-clock in CRT flyback. To use the highest resolutions, it appears that you need a modeline with short flyback times. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
