[lug] video card recommandation for 1680x1050?

[Zan Lynx]

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 11:30 -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?

In the Linux world these are the drivers by their Xorg.conf names:
"nv" is the 2D open source driver, barely better than VESA.
"nvidia" is NVIDIA's official binary driver.
"nouveau" is the new, not very stable, reverse engineered driver.

I run 64-bit Gentoo.  I'm using the 1.3.0 Xorg server with the 2.1.2 nv
driver.
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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