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From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>
To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de>
Subject: Re: vesafb with special resolution?
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 05:52:20 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410160552.20443.adaplas@hotpop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041015190606.GN30583@charite.de>

On Saturday 16 October 2004 03:06, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> I have a 16:10 screen on my laptop (1280x768). vesafb runs OK with a
> 1024x768 resolution, but is 1280x768 also possible?

With the current vesafb incarnation, no. The vesafb driver currently selects
the mode from a table of standard vesa modes provided by the BIOS, and  
1280x768 is not standard.

Try vesafb-tng if you need a non-vesa standard mode.

http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/vesafb-tng/

Tony

PS:  A mode settable vesafb may happen soon enough...




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  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-15 21:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-15 19:06 vesafb with special resolution? Ralf Hildebrandt
2004-10-15 21:52 ` Antonino A. Daplas [this message]
2004-10-16  7:55   ` Ralf Hildebrandt

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