New widescreen monitor, old radeon card - will this not work?

[Atom Powers]

On 9/3/06, Oliver Iberien <odilist at sonic.net> wrote:
> As usual, as soon as I post, I discover the correct search string to get me to
> the answer:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions%40freebsd.org/msg147148.html
>
> This poster even bought the same monitor I did. Does anyone know: Will newer
> nvidia cards generally work at this resolution? It seems safest just to get
> the one he did.
>
>
> > I have a new monitor with the following specs:
> > Horiz 31-87 kHz
> > Vert 56-75 Hz
> > 1680x1050 at 60Hz
> >

I don't know of any reason a less-that-eight-year-old Radeon card
couldn't support that resolution. I think you only need <64MB video
memory to support that resolution at 32bit color. Some monitors need
extra settings in the config line though.

I have recently tested 1680x1050,32bit color with Nvidia 6600, 6800,
7900 cards. (On MS Win, linux though. )

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