Video Cards Supporting Acrade Monitor Freq's

[DaRacerz]

Hello,

I looked on this board, but couldn't really find too many specifics for my situation.

I am looking to buy a video card that will basically work with my Arcade Monitor (15kHz) directly with no modification.  Yes, I know about modifiying the connector!  So the video card somehow needs to be able to natively switch to this mode.

Can you guys please list which video cards are known and test to work at these frequencies?  PLEASE... PRETTY PLEASE>....

Ok, now, heres the catch.  This is on a linux box using XFree86.  (Will not use Windoze or DOS - end of that discussion) So non of the ArcadeVGA (sp??) hacks will work on their list of cards cause this is a non native dos system.  

Ok, so I guess I'll start

ATI Radeon 9200 Series - Will this card do the job?

Ok, Thanks for your Time and looking forward to your responses.

[rampy]

this site has a review of cards taht go to 15khz

yes i know the tsr is dos based (but the source is there) but you asked about the CARDS not the driver =P

There was recently a mame cabinet that was linux based with an old ati cards (i guess old ati cards are great at clocking down to arc mon freqs)  i'll see if I can dig up the link.

Are you sure arcadevga won't work in linux?

uhm.. so yeah.. you should be able to get one of the standard cards like an old ati, or a trident t64 or what have you... and use the linux flavor of advance mame to clock that sucker down/output at arcade monitor resezs...

(note there are some useful utils for cabs on the advancemame site...

I'll see if I can dig up that link to that recent linux cab for ya...

BTw... I imagine if you combined that recent/modern ATI card with advanceamem you should be able to get some arcade modes out of it... but i don't know for sure/

good luck...

Rampy

EDIT: hmph don't see anything re: linux on ultimarc page... *shrug*

also this is the project example i was thinking of w/linux millipede conversion

[tom61]

The ArcadeVGA is not a hack, it is a dedicated video card. I think you got its term mixed up with VGA to arcade monitor or PC2Jamma.

The ArcadeVGA card boots up in 15kHz and continues running at that rate unless specifically told not to. This is the only consumer available card capable of that. Other cards can be forced to run at 15kHz with software, but won't have as many resolutions available.

Someone tried running the ArcadeVGA with Linux, there were some snags, but that should be expected with Linux and new hardware. Not sure if he got it working 100%.  The example mentioned by Rampy should help with configuring the ArcadeVGA, since ATI based cards tend to work the same (the ArcadeVGA is based on the Radeon 7000 core)