[lug] video card recommandation for 1680x1050?

[bgiles at coyotesong.com]

Are there non-nvidea cards?  I know there were a slew of generic cards
that could handle 1200x1024 (and even larger) in the past.  Have they
surrendered all larger screens to the expensive guys?

>> On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 11:30:43AM -0600, dio2002 at indra.com wrote:
>>> > On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 10:31 -0600, Hugh Brown wrote:
>>> > [snip]
>>> >> I did find one page that seemed to indicate that the nv driver won't
>>> >> do 1680x1050.
>>> >
>>> > I am using the nv driver on my laptop's 64MB GeForce4 440 Go to run
>>> its
>>> > 1920x1200 screen.  It's crappy and slow but it does work.
>>>
>>> Is that OS driver or proprietary?  Also, what distro?
>>
>> nv is the open source driver, nvidia is the proprietary driver.  nv
>> doesn't support the latest/greatest nVidia chipsets, nor does it have 3d
>> acceleration.
>
> don't care about 3d acceleration.  curious.  i'm running 1920x1200 on a
> 24" monitor.  How is that possible or even readable on a laptop size
> display.
>
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