Just took delivery of a New 8 core Mac Pro with 2 ATI Radeon HD 5770 grapics cards this week. I am connecting it to an HDTV and a Scan converter both with native resolutions of 1360 by 768. The Display prefences don't offer this setting for any of my diplays even after clicking detect displays. Doesn't seem to matter whether I use the DVI outputs or the mini display outputs).
Ideas?
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Two ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB
You might try SwitchResX.
I'm guessing you probably need to manually set the EDID info for the device and SwitchResX may be able to let you do that.
I'm curious why you even need that converter between the 5770 and HDTV when you can connect the TV directly with a HDMI to DVI or mini displayport adapter.
I had given up on this since Mavericks dropped SVGA output at 1360x768 from the list.
Switchresx did not help me. I had to remove the mini from my setup and hook it up to a DVI display to reboot and uninstall switchresx after I got the mini stuck on a resolution that the TV could no longer see.
I found out that I could have hit Alt Esc and shut down switchresx but I never tried to see if that would have indeed switched my resolution back to something the TV. could see.
I first noticed the movies I had in iTunes were distorted. And now there is no way to fix this.
Apple, this pure laziness on your behalf as there is NO sound reason why the same hardware which did support 1360x768 (SVGA standard output) no longer does under Mavericks. FIX IT!
Perhaps there is a way to do it with SwitchResx but I'll have to learn all the settings that are available in that rather complicated interface.
Mike
There are few more resolutions available by doing the very un-Mac-like procedure of holding down the Option key in the Displays Pane.
The (Detect Displays) button is hidden there too, and is revealed in about the same way.
I am not sure what those guys are smoking, but the Macintosh Interface Police should be notified.
1360 by 768
