[G4] Re: G4 Digest, Vol 26, Issue 23

[Robert MacLeay]

On 10/30/06 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:23:58 -0800 (PST), John Niven
<senseamp at yahoo.com> wrote:

> At work I have a "fabulous" Dell Precision M70 laptop.
> It also has a Dell 2001FP LCD hooked up via a docking
> station. [plus] my own 350MHz G4 AGP tower.
> 
> When connected to the laptops docking station DVI it
> will do native 1600x1200. When connected to the
> original Rage Pro card VGA connection I also get
> 1600x1200, but when I use the DVI connection I only
> get 1280x1024 max.
> 
> Is this normal? 
> 
> Can anybody explain?


A quick look at Apple's specifications
http://support.apple.com/specs/powermac/Power_Mac_G4_AGP.html
for the G4 AGP shows a maximum claimed resolution of 1280 x 1024 for VGA.
Are you sure you are really getting 1600x1200?

I would suspect you need a newer video card. Fortunately, there are a lot of
used AGP cards with adequate VRAM out there at reasonable ($20-$40) prices.