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Forums -> Multiple monitors -> Geforce 4 440Mx
Winger   2002-03-01 01:51
Does anyone know what resolutions on the secondary display these will work with. At the moment it seems that the highest i can get with my Geforce2mx dualhead is 1280x1024 on primary and 1184x856 on secondary.

Putting it into a higher resolution seems to make it go into some kind of interlacing mode.
Iain   2002-04-10 08:59
It was designed for a digital panel, so second mon only has 15Mhz pixel clock, and

nother important relationship is that between the resolution, the pixel
clock (aka dot clock) and the vertical refresh rate:

RR = PCLK / (HFL * VFL)

In other words, the refresh rate (RR) is equal to the pixel clock (PCLK)
divided by the total number of pixels: the horizontal frame length (HFL)
multiplied by the vertical frame length (VFL) (note that these are the
frame lengths, and not just the visible resolutions). As described in
the XFree86 Video Timings HOWTO, the above formula can be rewritten as:

PCLK = RR * HFL * VFL

Given a maximum pixel clock, you can adjust the RR, HFL and VFL as
desired, as long as the product of the three is consistent. The pixel
clock is reported in the log file when you run X with verbose logging:
`startx -- -logverbose 5`. Your XFree86.0.log should contain several
lines like:

From nvidia readme.
Iain   2002-04-11 09:25
17Mhz - oops I meant 150Mhz.
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