Re: [9fans] [RQ]: plan9 native 1920x1200 VGA recommendation

2013-03-20 Thread Peter A. Cejchan
Thank you, thank you, a _big_ thank you, folks! I will add a line how to parse the XFree86 Modeline to the wiki, the link is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFree86_Modeline Now it works great with my Dell DELL U2412Mb monitor and NVIDIA Corporation NV44 [GeForce 6200 LE] graphics card. Tears

Re: [9fans] [RQ]: plan9 native 1920x1200 VGA recommendation

2013-03-19 Thread Bakul Shah
On Mar 18, 2013, at 6:43 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > On 2013-03-18, at 4:09 AM, Peter A. Cejchan wrote: > >> could anyone recommend (personal experience would be nice) a VGA card that >> can support >> 1920x1200 mode on native Plan 9 from Bell Labs (from Bell Labs ;-) > > My ancient Via

Re: [9fans] [RQ]: plan9 native 1920x1200 VGA recommendation

2013-03-19 Thread John Floren
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Andy Spencer wrote: > On 2013-03-18 12:09, Peter A. Cejchan wrote: >> could anyone recommend (personal experience would be nice) a VGA card >> that can support 1920x1200 mode on native Plan 9 from Bell Labs (from >> Bell Labs ;-) ? > > I used to use a Dell M70 lap

Re: [9fans] [RQ]: plan9 native 1920x1200 VGA recommendation

2013-03-18 Thread Andy Spencer
On 2013-03-18 12:09, Peter A. Cejchan wrote: > could anyone recommend (personal experience would be nice) a VGA card > that can support 1920x1200 mode on native Plan 9 from Bell Labs (from > Bell Labs ;-) ? I used to use a Dell M70 laptop with a 1920x1200 display. It had an "Nvidia Quadro FX Go 14

Re: [9fans] [RQ]: plan9 native 1920x1200 VGA recommendation

2013-03-18 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2013-03-18, at 4:09 AM, Peter A. Cejchan wrote: > could anyone recommend (personal experience would be nice) a VGA card that > can support > 1920x1200 mode on native Plan 9 from Bell Labs (from Bell Labs ;-) My ancient Via Epia EK-1G mini-ITX motherboard does 1920x1080x(24 or 32? I forg

Re: [9fans] [RQ]: plan9 native 1920x1200 VGA recommendation

2013-03-18 Thread Steve Simon
I was always happy with it but when experimenting with another machine (using the vesa driver) connected to the DVI input of the monitor - I was shocked by how much better it looked. -Steve

Re: [9fans] [RQ]: plan9 native 1920x1200 VGA recommendation

2013-03-18 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Mar 18 16:06:25 EDT 2013, st...@quintile.net wrote: > > 1920x1200 mode on native Plan 9 > > Not quite there but I use a Dell 2007fp MONITOR at work at 1600x1200x16 > driven from > an NVida GeForece MX-200. Sadly this is has a VGA rather than DVI connector > so its a bit soft. I keep it bec

Re: [9fans] [RQ]: plan9 native 1920x1200 VGA recommendation

2013-03-18 Thread Steve Simon
> 1920x1200 mode on native Plan 9 Not quite there but I use a Dell 2007fp MONITOR at work at 1600x1200x16 driven from an NVida GeForece MX-200. Sadly this is has a VGA rather than DVI connector so its a bit soft. I keep it because I like the fact that the MX-200 is accelerated which is worth havi

Re: [9fans] [RQ]: plan9 native 1920x1200 VGA recommendation

2013-03-18 Thread erik quanstrom
> Hi, 9friends, > > could anyone recommend (personal experience would be nice) a VGA card that > can support > 1920x1200 mode on native Plan 9 from Bell Labs (from Bell Labs ;-) i've had good luck with the supermicro x7sla motherboard, which supports 1600x1200x16, and i use an ancient ECS IC890GX

Re: [9fans] [RQ]: plan9 native 1920x1200 VGA recommendation

2013-03-18 Thread Sergey Zhilkin
Hello ! I have i810 (very old celeron based terminal), it works with 1600x1200 mode. But it's 9legacy. 2013/3/18 Peter A. Cejchan > Hi, 9friends, > > could anyone recommend (personal experience would be nice) a VGA card that > can support > 1920x1200 mode on native Plan 9 from Bell Labs (from

[9fans] [RQ]: plan9 native 1920x1200 VGA recommendation

2013-03-18 Thread Peter A. Cejchan
Hi, 9friends, could anyone recommend (personal experience would be nice) a VGA card that can support 1920x1200 mode on native Plan 9 from Bell Labs (from Bell Labs ;-) ? Yes, I've read the wiki but it seems a bit outdated (?). Maybe not, I can't tell. Unfortunately, I am 50+ and my vision deterio