Re: RH 7.1 support for high-end monitors

[Thomas Dodd <ted cypress com>]

Fox30 Matt wrote:
> 
> Well I have 3 ViewSonics With 3 RH servers.. one has an ati Rage,
> another has a voodoo3, and my third has a GeForce on a GS815 21" view
> sonic.. Cranked up to 1600x and is fine.. the other 2 are PF790
> viewsonic RH 6.2.3 (Piglet) on the voodoo3..the othe ris a viewsonic
> G773-2 with the ATI Rage.. 1200x .. nothing but goodness...and all is
> quiet and well..I sat down today and looked over it all and HAD to eat
> a peanutbutter and jelly sandwitch! SO if 6.2 can do it with the
> GeForce on the GS815 @ 1600x res.. I dont think RH7 with better Xfree

Like I said it depends on the card and video memory.
The GeForce will probably do it. The Rage depends on which RAGE chip,
the Rage128 might, older one probably won't.
I don't have a clue about the Voodoo card.

My TNT2 will do 1600 on the cheap 19" monitor.

The new thing with XFree86-4 is the DDC support, to auto detect
the monitor capabilities, and support for newer cards.
My Optiquest V775 (17") does a much nicer looking 1600 though.

RedHat 4.1 will do fine too. As long as you have a driver for
you card. XFree86 will also do some truly strange resolutions,
like 752x564 and 936x702.

Look at the XFree86-Video-Timmings HOWTO to see how to set them up.
> > A few things:
> >
> > 1) Your video card and video memory determine what the max
> >    resolution/color depth/refresh rates you can send TO
> >    the monitor.
> > 2) XFree86-4 supports DDC, so it can as the monitor what
> >    it supports.
> > 3) You can tell X to TRY other settings, but you have to TELL
> >    X to to that.
> > 4) Modern monitors will not kill themselvs. They will shut down
> >    and/or give you a message that the settings are bad. My cheap
> >    19" monitor ($200) does that, so I'm sure the high-end ones
> >    will to.
> >
> >         -Thomas
> >

	-Thomas