[lug] video card recommandation for 1680x1050?

[Zan Lynx]

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 12:20 -0600, dio2002 at indra.com wrote:
> > 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.

Linux/X/Gnome (and Vista, finally) know all about DPI (dots per inch).
The fonts are simply rendered twice as large.  It looks *very* nice.  I
use LCD sub-pixel antialias rendering which gives me text that looks
laser printed.
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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