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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1730 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:55:31 EST Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:11443 comp.windows.x.i386unix:593 comp.windows.x:50470 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!gmd.de!gmdtub!bigfoot!tmh From: tmh@condor.first.gmd.de (Thomas Hoberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.windows.x Subject: Re: 1280 * 1024 on XFree86? Message-ID: <TMH.93Feb20034136@condor.first.gmd.de> Date: 20 Feb 93 02:41:36 GMT References: <1993Feb16.205225.2553@usasoc.soc.mil> <1993Feb17.120558.885@ucc.su.OZ.AU> Sender: news@bigfoot.first.gmd.de Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd Organization: GMD-FIRST, Berlin Lines: 45 In-reply-to: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU's message of 17 Feb 93 12:05:58 GMT In article <1993Feb17.120558.885@ucc.su.OZ.AU> dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes) writes: In article <1993Feb16.205225.2553@usasoc.soc.mil> ted@usasoc.soc.mil (Mr. Ted Nolan) writes: >Hello folks, > >Well I see the latest XFree86 is out, but after reading the announcement, [...] >Simple question: Are there any boards (manufacturer and model please!) >that work with XFree86 on 386BSD that will give you a decent, non interlaced, >low flicker at 1024*1280 on a 17-21" monitor? None of the chipsets currently supported by XFree86 can address more than 1MB of video memory, so resolutions higher than about 1152x900 are not possible with the colour server. The monochrome server will support 1280x1024 providing the card has more than 512KB of video memory. Yeah and it cost me one of the sleepless nights when you play and play around with the new software and you simply cannot finish... :-) Boy, that mono server is everthing I always wanted (2 years ago, now I got quite a selection of accellerated cards...) Still it was fun. The weakest point in my current graphics setup is the monitor: a 16" Nanao Flexscan 9070 with 50MHz video bandwidth. Yet yesterday I tweaked the mono Server so that it did 1280x1600 just right (from corner to corner)! How? Well that's the wounders of XFree86 (monochrome). Actually it's (only) 1280x1024 displayed, but vertical panning is instantanious and I do 1280x1600 virtual. Oh sure it's interlaced (because the monitor abviously can't handle 130MHz video) BUT IT DOESN'T LOOK AS BAD AS IT SOUNDS!! Actually an 80x40 xterm window using Adobes 24 point bold courier looks EXCELLENT (very much like the ATI CRYSTAL FONT courier at 1024x768) flicker is pretty much unnoticable if you avoid single dot horizontal lines or some dither patterns. It's far better than any other graphics setup (ok excluding the big TIGA card) for looking at GhostScript output (180dpi just fits on the 1280x1600 screen). Thanks a LOT to everyone on the XFree86 team! (special thanks to Thomas Roell, who got the whole thing going...) --- Thomas M. Hoberg | Internet: tmh@first.gmd.de 1000 Berlin 41 | tmh@cs.tu-berlin.de Wielandstr. 4 | Germany | BITNET: tmh@tub.bitnet +49-30-851-50-21 |