On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ken Ambrose said: > > >- even if it were supported by the hardware, XFree86 would still have > > to know about it. Non-trivial.) > > Ahhhm, XFree86 knows about my monitor just fine. Or am I missing > your point here?
XFree86 doesn't know about your monitor, per-se; rather, it knows about your card. And funky resolutions, unless I'm mistaken, are on a video card-by-video card basis. Rats. Now you're making me doubt myself. This quote from the 4.2.0 release notes seem to back me up, though: "Support added to the NVIDIA nv driver for interlaced modes on hardware that supports this, and support for resolutions higher than 1600x1200." So I think resolutions are video-card dependent, and a weird one might very well not be supported across the board, even by cards that are capable of supporting it, and even if XFree86 supports that resolution on other cards. If anyone knows better/more thoroughly than I, though, please do feel free to correct me! > >It's still the nicest LCD panel I've ever seen; > > Ayup! Me too! It's painful to go to work in the morning, knowing I'm > stuck with a sucky monitor there. Hmmm, maybe I'll make that a > stipulation when the economy picks up. I want 4 weeks vacation AND > an SGI 1600SW monitor :) Boy, do I wish we had an opening for you; my company just bought two of 'em off E-Bay for one of the engineers (with Oxygen cards -- $1150/ea.). Of course, four weeks' vacation might be somewhat more difficult. ;-) > That might not be too far off. My understanding was that the company > who was making those monitors was under exclusive contract to Apple > for only a finite period of time, and that expired last year some > time. We could start seeing them in the near future. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... That'd be nice. Anyone else know anything else about this? > >Well, that, and if RH has another IPO. :( > > I'd just settle to see their stock jump up 10 or so points :) Amen, brother. ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
