In a message dated: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:54:35 PDT
Ken Ambrose said:

>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!

But then why does it care about your h/v sync rates?  If it only 
needs to be concerned with the card, shouldn't the card worry about 
that stuff?
-- 

Seeya,
Paul



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