Rick Kelly wrote:
> Mark Weinem said:
>
>> On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Rick Kelly wrote:
>>
>>> And the market seems to have reached a point
where there are only ATI
>>> and Nvidia cards that don't really work with
XFree or Xorg.
>>>
>>> All I want is a card that will do 1280x1024
with a depth of 16.
>> Radeon 9250 should still be available (agp &
pci version).
>> Running here with XFree, no problems.
>
> The system that I'm sitting in front of has an:
>
> ATI Technologies Rage Fury MAXX AGP 4x
>
> It will drive a NEC XV17, DiamondPoint SB70, and a Sony
SDM-S75 LCD at
> 1280x1024 without a problem. I can only assume that
the:
>
> Diamond Stealth S80 ( ATI Radeon )
>
> Needs a higher horizontal frequency than the first two
monitors can
> provide to do 1280x1024.
>
> The system with the Rage Fury MAXX is NetBSD/i386 1.6.x
running
> XF86 4.2.1.
>
> I am building another box with an Athlon 64 x2 running
NetBSD/i386 3.0.
> It looks like I need to buy another LCD monitor to
support 1280x1024.
> The motherboard is an ASUS A8V.
>
> Tigerdirect.com has the:
>
> PowerColor Radeon 9250 / 128MB DDR / AGP 8X / VGA / DVI
/ TV Out / Video Card
>
> For $40. I will probably buy a couple of them.
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.
Hope that helps someone  .
-Brian
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