Video cards

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Ben Duncan <linux4ms at aim.com> wrote:
> Ok, I have 6200 Series:
>
>  lspci -v output is :
>
>  02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 6200 A-LE (rev a1)
>  (prog-if 00 [VGA])
>          Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. Unknown device a295
>          Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 20
>          Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>          Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
>          Memory at e5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>          [virtual] Expansion ROM at e6000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>          Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
>          Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0
>
>  I am running it at 1680 x 1050 via the Digital Interface.
>
>  Are you saying I am not suppose to be able to do that?

No, I'm saying that you can't use a dual link TMDS pixelclock on a
card that doesn't have dual link TMDS support.  1680x1050 might work,
or perhaps the driver is reducing the refresh rate to make it work.
Only the X log will tell you.



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