My company found itself with a bit of cash at the end of the year and
decided to buy me a Dell 2405 display.
This has a native resolution of 1920x1200. It works great on the
Mac, but I'd like to also use it on the linux box.
'lspci -v' reports:
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon
R300 ND [Radeon 9700 Pro] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 0002
Flags: bus master, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency
255, IRQ 16
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
Memory at f5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [58] AGP version 3.0
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R300
[Radeon 9700 Pro] (Secondary)
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 0003
Flags: stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [disabled]
[size=128M]
Memory at f5010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled]
[size=64K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Relavent parts of the Xorg.log file state:
(II) fglrx(0): Connected Display1: DFP on internal TMDS
(II) fglrx(0): Display1 EDID data ---------------------------
(II) fglrx(0): Manufacturer: DEL Model: a010 Serial#: 810826067
(II) fglrx(0): Year: 2005 Week: 41
(II) fglrx(0): EDID Version: 1.3
(II) fglrx(0): Digital Display Input
(II) fglrx(0): Max H-Image Size [cm]: horiz.: 52 vert.: 33
(II) fglrx(0): Gamma: 2.20
(II) fglrx(0): DPMS capabilities: StandBy Suspend Off; RGB/Color Display
(II) fglrx(0): Default color space is primary color space
(II) fglrx(0): First detailed timing is preferred mode
(II) fglrx(0): redX: 0.640 redY: 0.330 greenX: 0.300 greenY: 0.607
(II) fglrx(0): blueX: 0.149 blueY: 0.060 whiteX: 0.312 whiteY: 0.328
(II) fglrx(0): Supported VESA Video Modes:
(II) fglrx(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(II) fglrx(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(II) fglrx(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(II) fglrx(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(II) fglrx(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(II) fglrx(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(II) fglrx(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(II) fglrx(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(II) fglrx(0): Manufacturer's mask: 0
(II) fglrx(0): Supported Future Video Modes:
(II) fglrx(0): #0: hsize: 1280 vsize 1024 refresh: 60 vid: 32897
(II) fglrx(0): #1: hsize: 1600 vsize 1200 refresh: 60 vid: 16553
(II) fglrx(0): #2: hsize: 1152 vsize 864 refresh: 75 vid: 20337
(II) fglrx(0): #3: hsize: 1680 vsize 1050 refresh: 60 vid: 179
(II) fglrx(0): Supported additional Video Mode:
(II) fglrx(0): clock: 154.0 MHz Image Size: 519 x 324 mm
(II) fglrx(0): h_active: 1920 h_sync: 1968 h_sync_end 2000
h_blank_end 2080 h_border: 0
(II) fglrx(0): v_active: 1200 v_sync: 1203 v_sync_end 1209
v_blanking: 1235 v_border: 0
(II) fglrx(0): Serial No: T61335A40T9S
(II) fglrx(0): Monitor name: DELL 2405FPW
(II) fglrx(0): Ranges: V min: 56 V max: 76 Hz, H min: 30 H max: 81
kHz, PixClock max 170 MHz
(II) fglrx(0): End of Display1 EDID data --------------------
http://www.ati.com/products/radeon9700/radeon9700pro/specs.html says
that it should run 1920x1200 @ 75Hz. For some reason X.org doesn't
see it that way.
So I guess I'm looking for a new 'graphics' card.
I don't care (much) about 3D, but I do like my text to draw fast. I
prefer DVI ports to VGA ports. I run Ubuntu (but will soon reload
with kbuntu) on this machine. (3GHz P4, 1GB ram, 2x200GB SATA
drives, all in a Shuttle SFF case.)
I've had this card in various machines since early 2001 (my days at
Musenki).
Anyone got recommendations?
jim
