Matrox Graphics Card – User Guide
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Display information
Notes
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Your Matrox graphics card is 100% VGA compatible and supports all VESA standards:
VBE 2.0 (Super VGA modes), DPMS (energy saving), and DDC-2B (Plug-and-Play
monitor).
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Matrox graphics cards that can support a secondary display have the Matrox DualHead
feature. For information on which card models support this feature,
see “Hardware
information”, page 43
.
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Windows 95/98 – In DualHead Multi-Display mode (
see page 8
), the graphics memory
is divided equally between the main and secondary display. For example, if you have a
16 MB graphics card, the main and secondary displays each have 8 MB available to
them. As a result, maximum display capabilities may be affected.
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In DualHead Multi-Display mode (
see page 8
), the secondary display only supports a
16- or 32-bit color palette.
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3D acceleration is only available with a 16- or 32-bit color palette.
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The display resolutions available depend on your Matrox graphics card, display driver
and software monitor settings. Different software monitor settings have different
resolutions available to them. With your software monitor settings, some of the
resolutions listed in this section may not be available, or resolutions not listed in this
section may be available. For more information on software monitor settings with
Windows 95/98/2000 or NT 4.0,
see “Monitor setup”, page 6
.
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Many Plug-and-Play monitors don’t automatically report if they’re capable of
1152 × 864, or 1600 × 1200 and higher display resolutions. To use these resolutions, or
higher refresh rates than those reported by the monitor, you can use the Matrox monitor
selection method. To use Matrox monitor settings with Windows 95/98 or NT 4.0,
see
“Monitor setup”, page 6
.
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The maximum refresh rates listed in this section have been rounded and are based on a
monitor with a maximum horizontal refresh rate of 130 kHz. Depending on your
monitor, refresh rate capabilities may vary. For information on the capabilities of your
monitor, see your monitor documentation.
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