g3 b&w running 8.6, how to get 1440x900?

Check the os9forever website, there used to exist a slightly modified driver to support widescreen resolutions such as this on ATI cards.

I dunno about 8.6, but my MDD running 9.2.2 (the one I develop Classilla on) does 1920x1080 without any specific drivers.

Oops... didn't see I put "6.6" but luckily you all knew what I meant.

I was searching far and wide last night but I cannot find a source for anything. A few sites link to ATI drivers but all the links are dead.

I think what I need is an apple supplied OpenGL package "1.01" but I cannot track it down.

Try Resolution Manager, which I think was originally developed by the guy who runs System7today.

Have you checked this site?

http://gona.mactar.hu/ATI_Mac/

I have a B&W G3 (also 8.6) with an original Radeon card. For whatever reason the latest drivers give me a slightly wrong resolution that is 8 pixels wider than the monitor's native resolution. But the original Radeon Mac retail drivers from that site work great. I am using 1440x900 over DVI. But I believe as long as your monitor has proper DDC and your card can read it you should be able to do that with analog VGA as well.

I've been to that site but I've been unable to find a download link that works :-(

EDIT: nvm found one that works and im going to give it a go right now.

Thank you

ok, I have the 1.1.1 drivers and the latest openGL but still cant hit that resolution :-(

might have to find the card that belongs in this machine... this Theater card is just too weird I guess.

There's a resedit hack for running a specific PCI video card at arbitrary resolutions which someone posted here - in an 8500 under OS 8.something I think. Search?

I think that was noidentity. You could try PMing him, but I don't know if he comes here still.

I could only get 512 x 384 outta' my G3 under 6.6, IIRC . . .

. . . so I'm watching this one with interest.

< . . . fixed! ) >

thank you for fixing that jt!

and thanks for that Bunsen and Classic, I'm going to shoot off a PM