9700 Pro: Widescreen with New Drivers?

[sohosources]

Hi, gang:

I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out whether my "agng but
still sweet" Radeon 9700 Pro (not mobile) can be made to work with the
new crop of widescreen LCDs, perhaps through a driver update?

I'm potentially interested in 1440 X 900 and 1680 x 1050.

Help?

Thanks,

--KK in MN

 

[Ian O]

Hi, gang:

I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out whether my "agng but
still sweet" Radeon 9700 Pro (not mobile) can be made to work with the
new crop of widescreen LCDs, perhaps through a driver update?

I'm potentially interested in 1440 X 900 and 1680 x 1050.

Help?

Thanks,

--KK in MN

Well. my 9600 PRO under a 6.3 Omega set allows me to set those wide
resolutions on my old Dell 17" CRT. Looks awful but that's not the
point. The .inf file for some monitors will maybe not be so wide
ranging as mine, but you will get a suitable one to install with a
widescreen LCD. I am not aware that there is any more to it than that.



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[Benjamin Gawert]

* sohosources:

I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out whether my "agng but
still sweet" Radeon 9700 Pro (not mobile) can be made to work with the
new crop of widescreen LCDs, perhaps through a driver update?

I'm potentially interested in 1440 X 900 and 1680 x 1050.

Every Radeon does widescreen. The thing is that widescreen modes are not
listed unless a widescreen display is recognised by the driver (with
Nvidia it's the same btw). 1680x1050 and 1920x1200 are definitely
possible, but I'm not sure about the 1440x900 (that's a somewhat odd
resolution usually only used by low end widescreen displays like some
crappy Acer models).

Benjamin