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[OT] Voodoo3

Hello,

Sorry for the OT question - does anybody have any ideas how to get a fixed-
resolution monitor to work with a 3dfx Voodoo3 card? The monitor is
1152x870/75Hz, and V3 should support this resolution/refresh. But, after 6
hours of tinkering around with drivers, mode prefs, control panels etc my
best result is an image that is triple-ghosted vertically, shrunk by 1/3
vertically, offset to the left by 1/5, overlayed with the leftmost 1/5 in
the weirdest way (at an 120 angle), and with an insanely dark gamma (75%
black).

On a side note - the VillageTronic MacPicasso series of Voodoo3 cards seem
to support fixed-resolution monitors. A quote from the webpage:

> However, if you use the original Apple-Monitor Adaptor together with an
oldstyle > Apple Monitor we still read out correctly the oldstyle Apple
monitor sensing ID > Bits. Even if you connect their fixed frequency
Monitors we will guarantee that > after booting you will always have the
Apple Desktop on your Monitor screen.
> Furthermore if you start a multimedia application (e.g. a Glide game) that
> automatically switches to a different resolution (e.g. 640x480) our cards
make
> sure that not only your fixed frequency monitor gets the correct signals
(so you
> do not end up with either a dark tube a "scrolling" image), but also for
your
> full enjoyment it scales the output of such programs to fullscreen.

<http://www.villagetronic.com/d_technology.html>

I wonder if adding a similar feature to the 3dfx drivers would be possible.

Thanks for any help,
Mietek.



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