Custom Resolutions - Matrox Sales is invited to have a peek, too

[KvHagedorn]

Yeah Maggie, you might think you're "pretty fine," but I would rather not "bare" with you either.

Now, how about playing Eine Kleine Nacktmusik?

BTW, 1600x1024 is supported already. I'm using it on a regular basis. How about 1920x1200 for a good one? That's one of the resolutions I like to use with my MAX.. should do even better with Parhelia. And there's no real reason, with all the cash we are paying for P, that each and every one of these should not be supported. If it's really a professional card, it should act like it.. a professional card should have xFree86 drivers too.

[Kruzin]

OK...I added a bunch of resolutions that ppl have asked me for, plus the last option, which makes the most sense to me

[Ryu Connor]

Some of these resolutions should be added just to be competitive with the other 3D titans.

I voted on the resolutions I would like to see. The HDTV resolutions would be nice as would these:

1280x768
1600x900

I would think a 720x480 resolution wouldn't hurt either.

[diuby]

I would like to be able to create a custom resolution like I can do with Matrox Technical Support Tweak utility and my beloved G400max.

I do not use big monitors for the moment (i have only an old 15" monitor+ 25" TV) but I like very much matrox card (G200-G400max) and software (powerdesk+MTSU) with their 2D fantastic features but i need more 3D power with matrox image quality (fantastic color especially in Direct3D)....

My default resolution at the moment is very personal... 912x684..((1024-800)/2+800) x ((768-600)/2 +600).......so.....
PLEASE custom resolution and win98 drivers........

[diuby]

I just read no win98 drivers no planned in Latest Matrox Drivers section..........

[T'kul Bastile]

I voted for...................uh I forgot!

[Peter Aragon]

Originally posted by afterburn
While they are reading along: fix the memory usage of Powerdesk! I find it insane that a display driver is using almost 18MB of memory. Not everybody is in the luxurious position to have an excessive amount of memory.

You'd need to talk with Microsoft about that. That's the .NET framework using a fair amount of memory. But don't worry about that, if the system needs memory the .NET garbage collector will kick in and free some memory, and it really depends on how much ram you have, and if you can afford a Parhelia.....

It's actually a good sign that .NET claims such a large chunk of memory, see it like having to pay a large amount of taxes (for those who don't get it: I would love to pay a large sum of taxes, just a sign how wealthy you are hehehe)

[Maggi]

Originally posted by Kruzin
OK...I added a bunch of resolutions that ppl have asked me for, plus the last option, which makes the most sense to me

Good one, Kruzin !!!

Now I wish, I knew how to revote for that last option ...

Cheers,
Maggi

PS: Sorry for those typos ...

[Belwarrior]

Kruzin beat me to it..
You cannot please everyone since you cant add whichever resolutions everyone wants which is why i believe Matrox used to allow the user to set his own res. It made me happy to customise a res other than all these res : 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1152x864, 1280x768, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1600x900, 1600x1024, 1600x1200, My monitor supports 1600x1280 :P my g400 had no problems running it at that res.

[Slougi]

Matrox drivers are worse than SiS.... or so it seems. As someone said earlier, it's supposed to be a professional card. Problem is, atm it's not.

[trousers]

Hi all,

from a recent posting by 'Glenn Booth' on alt.comp.periphs.videocards.matrox:

*/snip


1280*960 is in the .inf file, but it's commented out.

To make it available, Open the inf file in the unpacked
driver file set using a text editor. Now uncomment
the last line (the one that references 1280*960). Cut
this line out, and paste it into the line above the
1280*1024 resolution line, so that it looks like this:

[AddReg.Modes]
HKR,,Mga.PixelWidths,0x00000001,08,10,20
HKR,,Mga.SingleResolutions,0x00000001,\
%R__320x_200%,%R__320x_200a%,%R__320x_200b%,%R__32 0x_200c%,\
%R__320x_240%,%R__320x_240a%,%R__320x_240b%,%R__32 0x_240c%,\
%R__512x_384%,%R__512x_384a%,%R__512x_384b%,%R__51 2x_384c%,\
%R__640x_400%,%R__640x_400a%,%R__640x_400b%,%R__64 0x_400c%,\
%R__640x_480%,%R__640x_480a%,%R__640x_480b%,%R__64 0x_480c%,\
%R__800x_600%,%R__800x_600a%,%R__800x_600b%,%R__80 0x_600c%,\
%R_1024x_768%,%R_1024x_768a%,%R_1024x_768b%,%R_102 4x_768c%,\
%R_1152x_864%,%R_1152x_864a%,%R_1152x_864b%,%R_115 2x_864c%,\
%R_1280x_960%,%R_1280x_960a%,%R_1280x_960b%,%R_128 0x_960c%,\
%R_1280x1024%,%R_1280x1024a%,%R_1280x1024b%,%R_128 0x1024c%,\
%R_1600x1024%,%R_1600x1024a%,%R_1600x1024b%,%R_160 0x1024c%,\
%R_1600x1200%,%R_1600x1200a%,%R_1600x1200b%,%R_160 0x1200c%,\
%R_1920x1080%,%R_1920x1080a%,%R_1920x1080b%,%R_192 0x1080c%,\
%R_1920x1200%,%R_1920x1200a%,%R_1920x1200b%,%R_192 0x1200c%,\
%R_1920x1440%,%R_1920x1440a%,%R_1920x1440b%,%R_192 0x1440c%,\
%R_2048x1536%,%R_2048x1536a%,%R_2048x1536b%,%R_204 8x1536c%

Please forgive the wrapped lines - I have a broken autowrap! When you do
this, keep the lines continuous; you'll see what I mean when you open
the inf file.

Then go to [AddReg.VidParms] and uncomment the last 3 lines. The last 3
lines should look like this:

HKR,,Graphic.1280.960,0x00000001,\
3c,00,3c,00,e0,a5,01,00,60,00,70,00,38,01,01,00,03 ,00,24,00,00,00,00,00,
\
55,00,56,00,10,44,02,00,40,00,a0,00,e0,00,01,00,03 ,00,2f,00,00,00,00,00

Now save the file.

Now when you install Powerdesk, it should pick up the support for
1280*960 and make that mode available.

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Glenn.


snip/*


Though this might be of interest. Have not tried it myself, so general common-sense warnings apply. At least one poster has got it to work, though.

trousers

[Kruzin]

Hmmm..sounds familiar..almost like he ripped that info from a post here at MURC....

http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34380

[trousers]

Hmm, yes.

I hadn't seen your original post.

Credit where credit's due. I'm just a little surprised that there wasn't a link to that info earlier in this thread, although the real question must be why the apparently supported resolutions are not already available without hacking the .inf;

Users: "We want more resolutions now!"
Matrox CS: "Register your interest with the sales team"
Users: "We want more resolutions now!"
Sales Team: "Ah! Overwhelming interest. Hardware team!"
Hardware: "Yep. Supported in hardware! Driver team!"
Driver Team: "Hmm. Doable? Programmer!"
Programmer: "Why the hell weren't these enabled in the first place?"

I can't understand why Matrox reduced the selection of 'custom' resolutions. Has anyone tried the other listed resolutions? Any thoughts?

trousers

[Maggi]

... but still a nice draw from Glenn ...

[testjoe]

3072 x 1280 (Triple LCD"s in portrait mode tilted 90 degrees)

So far with software-based solutions like PivotPro, with separate desktops you can at least tilt your multi-monitors into portrait mode - very useful for minimizing horizontal eye-travel by 33%. Trouble is that software based solutions like the PivotPro software add latency and sluggishness to the display since some translation is having to happen and its burdening the CPU. I'm not holding my breath but a hardware-accelerated (read: done inside the Parhelia GPU) of a 3072x1280 triplehead desktop utilizing three LCD's tilted 90 degrees would be a godsend to those of us that have witnessed how much more "VISUALLY CONSCIOUS" one is of a triple-display in portrait mode.

Joe T.