On Tuesday 21 August 2012 16:25:56 Viesturs Lācis did opine: > 2012/8/21 Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com>: > > The VESA driver, which is the eprom on the card, is configured by that > > eprom I believe. It is entirely possible they don't support any 16/9 > > format, I have run into that. Installing the proprietary nvidia > > driver will likely fix that, however, the nvidia drivers effect on > > real time latency drives a silver spike thru the heart of any > > expectations that it will work with a stepgen driven stepper system. > > Servo's maybe, but not direct from the parport driven steppers. > > > > You may want to see if a different, equally economical card might > > work. > > Got it to work! Somehow managed to install the driver and I have full > 1920x1080 resolution now. > > Thanks, Gene! Ubuntu and LinuxCNC is installed on this PC only for > testing/developing purposes, so I definitely do not care about any > potential latency issues. It will _never_ meet any actual cnc machine > in its current configuration, especially with this particular > video-card, which I bought specially for 3D CAD tasks. Primary task of > this PC is 3D CAD, LinuxCNC is secondary for this particular PC.
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