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 ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
