On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:

I had to replace an 4:3 Westinghouse monitor this weekend.  I got a new ASUS VH242H, which is very wide.  But Xorg is still running 1280x1024, instead of the monitor's normal 1920x1080, according to xorg logs because of lack of video memory (using the ATI on the motherboard).  I can make the screen use a 4:3 aspect ratio, so I'm up and running, much better than I started, but I'd like to do better.

I guess I've gotta look for a video card, but all I have is PCIX slots, so I don't want to put a lot of money into it (I'll be upgrading the mobo when finances permit -- which is not right now.)

Any ideas?

You'd kinda think that since AGP is kinda sorta a beefed up version of PCI, kinda sorta like PCI-X, you ought to be able to find a boatload of cards like this for the cheap on eBay. But finding one is like finding hen's teeth. The only one I've found is a 3.3/5V 32/64bit 33/66MHz ATI card and they're about $US500. The company that makes them does them for multi-head displays such as NOC displays, etc, so if you can't spare the change for a new mobo, then five hundred bucks for a video card in a worn-out bus format is probably out of the question.

<rant>I've been looking for one for years now because I have this great Dell server that just keeps on running and running but it has these beautiful 64 bit PCI-X slots just calling out for a decent video card -- but not AGP!</rant>