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From: Andreas Thiele on 12 Jan 2008 08:58
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

From: General Schvantzkopf on 12 Jan 2008 10:07
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.


From: Anton Ertl on 12 Jan 2008 10:29
"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. The driver
work for newer cards has probably not yet made it into Suse Enterprise
9, but maybe it has (after all, Novell/Suse is very active in
developing the driver); but even then, the driver may not have the
capabilities you want (does it support hardware 2D acceleration yet?).

- anton
--
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From: ray on 12 Jan 2008 11:40
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

FWIW - Are you sure you can't? I recently got a 19" widescreen 1440x900.
On one computer with Ubuntu and Nvidia card, it was straight forward to
set up. On my mini-itx (VIA chipset) with Gentoo it was a little more
challenging, but finally got there and it works find on both systems via
KVM switch.

From: Andreas Thiele on 12 Jan 2008 12:02
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

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