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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:30:49 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] [RQ]: plan9 native 1920x1200 VGA recommendation
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> Hi, 9friends,
>
> could anyone recommend (personal experience would be nice) a VGA card that
> can support
> 1920x1200 mode on native Plan 9 from Bell Labs (from Bell Labs ;-)

i've had good luck with the supermicro x7sla motherboard,
which supports 1600x1200x16, and i use an ancient ECS IC890GXM-A
with this video device @ 1600x1200x16

1.5.0:	vid  03.00.00 1002/9714  10 0:d0000008 268435456 1:0000b001 256 2:fddf0000 65536 5:fdc00000 1048576
	Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI 	RS880 [Radeon HD 4290]

there are also 1920x1440 modes available, but my monitor does support
them.

i'm running the atom nix kernel now, but the atom pc and pcpae
kernels work as well.

by the way, i can never remember motherboard models, so dmi(8)
http://www.quanstro.net/magic/man2html/8/dmi
is a big help.

- erik