Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> Carl Parrish wrote:
>> So I just got a ViewSonic VA2012wb from Costco (great price there)
>> It took me longer than I want to admit to get it working so I want to
>> post the important settings in /etc/X11/xorg.conf (at least in Fedora
>> Core 5), for the achives
>>
>> Section "Monitor"
>> Identifier "Monitor0"
>> VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
>> ModelName "VA2012wSERIE"
>> DisplaySize 430 270
>> ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
>> HorizSync 30.0 - 94.0
>> VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0
>> Option "dpms"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Screen"
>> Identifier "Screen0"
>> Device "Videocard0"
>> Monitor "Monitor0"
>> DefaultDepth 24
>> SubSection "Display"
>> Viewport 0 0
>> Depth 16
>> Modes "800x600" "640x480"
>> EndSubSection
>> SubSection "Display"
>> Viewport 0 0
>> Depth 24
>> Modes "1680x1050" "1280x800"
>> EndSubSection
>> EndSection
>>
>> DisplaySize seems to be the key setting. I don't know how much setting
>> the others helped or not (since the monitor just didn't work at all
>> until the DisplaySize was set) however with these settings everything
>> seems to be working.
>>
> Thanks for this, Carl. I picked one up yesterday at Costco ($299).
>
> I haven't tried it yet with my computer, but I figure I might want a
> video card upgrade. My (relatively old) MB has onboard video (128-bit
> 2D/3D 100MHz AGP V2.0 compliant), and an AGP1 4X (AGP 2.0) slot. The MB
> manual says the onboard video will support resolutions up to 1920x1440
> Hi-colors, up to 2048x2048 texture size and virtual screen up to
> 4096x4096 with a maximum of 64M shared memory frame buffer. I don't know
> what texture size or virtual screen means, but it appears that the
> resolution would be adequate.
>
> As I begin my quest, I'm wondering if anyone here has any advice or
> recommendations.
>
> TIA.
>
Ok, I've narrowed it down to eVGA 256-A8-N341-L2 Geforce 6200 256MB
64-bit DDR AGP 4X/8X Video Card. Newegg has it for $45.99 after $10 rebate.
Two questions:
1) Any gotchas?
2) Will this card be a noticeable improvement? I'm assuming that my
onboard will do 1680x1050 wide format.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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