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From: General Schvantzkopf on 12 Jan 2008 12:17 On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:02:29 +0100, Andreas Thiele wrote: > General Schvantzkopf wrote: >> On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:58:39 +0100, Andreas Thiele wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I just installed Suse Enterprise 9 on a box with Matrox Parhelia card. >>> After installation of the Matrox drivers, highest resolution I can set >>> is 1600x1200 while the card should support 1920x1440. My 24'' Samsung >>> 245B display supports up to 1920x1200 and looks best at this maximum >>> resolution. >>> >>> Is there any recommandation for graphics adapters that run well under >>> Linux (Suse) and support 1920x1200? >>> >>> >>> Thanks for any hint. >>> >>> Andreas >> >> You might be able to get your current card to do it be throwing some >> switch in the xorg.conf file. I have an old Nvidia 5700 card which will >> only run at 1920x1200 if I turn off the Max Pixel Clock check, Driver >> Option "ModeValidation" "NoMaxPClkCheck" >> >> This is an Nvidia option, it's possible that there is something similar >> for Matrox. >> >> If you can't figure out how to get the Matrox card to support your >> monitor then you might want to consider getting a reasonably recent >> model Nvidia card, just check the specs on Newegg to see if that >> resolution is supported. > > Thanks for you hint. Previously I tried to configure the display using > Yast. Searching through the sources and docus for your option I found > installation hints which had been automatically deleted by the > installer. Matrox explictely explains 1920x1200 by manually adding a > modeline to XF86Config. With this manual modeline Parhelia now works > fine! Now I wont touch Yast display configuration again :) > > Thanks > Andreas You might want to post the modeline here so that other users of your card will know what to do.
From: Darren Salt on 12 Jan 2008 12:56 I demand that Anton Ertl may or may not have written... > "Andreas Thiele" <nospam(a)nospam.com> writes: >> Is there any recommandation for graphics adapters that run well under = >> Linux (Suse) and support 1920x1200? > I have good experiences with a Radeon 7000 using the free "radeon" driver. > Any ATI card up to the X850XT should work well. X1050 too; https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver. (I remember reading somewhere that it's a faster version of the X300.) [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | Kill all extremists! The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
From: Chris Cox on 13 Jan 2008 02:16 Andreas Thiele wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed Suse Enterprise 9 on a box with Matrox Parhelia card. After installation of the Matrox drivers, highest resolution I can set is 1600x1200 while the card should support 1920x1440. My 24'' Samsung 245B display supports up to 1920x1200 and looks best at this maximum resolution. > > Is there any recommandation for graphics adapters that run well under Linux (Suse) and support 1920x1200? I have run DUAL 1920x1200 monitors using Nvidia cards. 6600GT, 7600GT.
From: Andreas Thiele on 13 Jan 2008 05:04
General Schvantzkopf wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:02:29 +0100, Andreas Thiele wrote: > >> General Schvantzkopf wrote: >>> On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:58:39 +0100, Andreas Thiele wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I just installed Suse Enterprise 9 on a box with Matrox Parhelia card. >>>> After installation of the Matrox drivers, highest resolution I can set >>>> is 1600x1200 while the card should support 1920x1440. My 24'' Samsung >>>> 245B display supports up to 1920x1200 and looks best at this maximum >>>> resolution. >>>> >>>> Is there any recommandation for graphics adapters that run well under >>>> Linux (Suse) and support 1920x1200? >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks for any hint. >>>> >>>> Andreas >>> >>> You might be able to get your current card to do it be throwing some >>> switch in the xorg.conf file. I have an old Nvidia 5700 card which will >>> only run at 1920x1200 if I turn off the Max Pixel Clock check, Driver >>> Option "ModeValidation" "NoMaxPClkCheck" >>> >>> This is an Nvidia option, it's possible that there is something similar >>> for Matrox. >>> >>> If you can't figure out how to get the Matrox card to support your >>> monitor then you might want to consider getting a reasonably recent >>> model Nvidia card, just check the specs on Newegg to see if that >>> resolution is supported. >> >> Thanks for you hint. Previously I tried to configure the display using >> Yast. Searching through the sources and docus for your option I found >> installation hints which had been automatically deleted by the >> installer. Matrox explictely explains 1920x1200 by manually adding a >> modeline to XF86Config. With this manual modeline Parhelia now works >> fine! Now I wont touch Yast display configuration again :) >> >> Thanks >> Andreas > > You might want to post the modeline here so that other users of your card > will know what to do. Yes, of course. Actually it is simple. One has to read the installation hints. Matrox supplies two documents: 'Release Notes' = readme-1.4.5.txt and 'Advanced Release Notes' = readme-advanced-1.4.5.txt. Advanced Release Notes contain 'Section 04 - Display Resolution support'. First paragraph in Subsection '1 - Special resolutions support' of 'Section 04' contains an example "Monitor" Section which works with my Samsung 245b display: "For example: Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor1" Modeline "1920x1200" 154.0 1920 1968 2000 2080 1200 1203 1209 1235 EndSection" It might as well be helpful to know, you can run the installer with option --extract-only which leaves all sources and these release notes on your machine after installation. These release notes can also be downloaded separately as hinted during the download procedure. Hope this helps :) Andreas |