Not sure if the facility exists on macs sorry, but on windows machines the
ability is there to show other resolutions not specified by the video card..
these are not normally listed because they can result in damage to the
monitor, related to refresh rates (which is not really a thing with LCD's,
although they can easily fall outside the monitors limitations and leave you
with a blank screen). Some fiddling with settings can usually get a monitor
driving acceptably.
I read the apple 20" cinema display as yielding 1680x 1050.
and you wrote:
The new Dell is 23.8" and resolution is 1900 x 1080
I see from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Pro that the 2008 lists Mac Pro
lists 3 video cards as standard or optional, these were ATI Radeon HD 2600
XT, the nVidia GeForce 8800 and the nVidia Quadro FX 5600 (an expensive
card!)
I read the respective resolutions of these cards as:
ATI Radeon HD 2600 : DVI: 2560 x 1600 / VGA: 2048 x 1536
nVidia GeForce 8800 : DVI2 560x1600 VGA: 2048x1536
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-8800-gt/specifications
nVidia Quadro FX 5600 a stupid high 3840 x 2400
http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro_fx_5600_4600_features.html
All of these strike me as within the parameters of your monitor.
As I said though I am ignorant about how mac video settings can be altered
beyond the parameters of what the card thinks what monitor it is talking
to. Are thr folks at Dell able to advise you at all? What model Dell is
it?
k
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lea Murphy" <lea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students"
<photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2014 11:28 AM
Subject: Second monitor suggestions/help
Perhaps someone on this list has experienced this and can help.
I'm using an early 2008 Mac Pro tower with Mavericks installed. Up until
this morning I used two Apple Cinema displays. My secondary monitor, a 20
inch Apple Cinema, gave up the ship yesterday and wouldn't give a picture at
all today.
I purchased a Dell ultra high resolution, not 4K, monitor, brought it home,
hooked it up VGA to DMI and despite messing in my preferences I could never
get the screen on the second monitor to look natural and not stretched.
At the recommendation of tech-support I went with a DMI to HDMI cable,
skipping VGA completely, and couldn't get a picture on the second monitor at
all.
Am I missing something?Surely there's a monitor out there of high resolution
that will work on my older computer.
I'm open to suggestions, ideas, troubleshooting workarounds.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
Lea
your kids . my camera . we'll click
