[lug] video card recommandation for 1680x1050?

[dio2002 at indra.com]

> 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.