From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: 855resolution patch and linux framebuffer
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 09:26:37 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43BF18CD.8060706@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43BAC3ED.1090900@plek.net>
Eric Schoeller wrote:
> I have been working recently with the framebuffer driver vesafb and
> kernel 2.6.14. I am using the Intel 855GME chipset on a dell 700m
> laptop. The native resolution of the LCD on this device is 1280x800 -
> but can only be achieved after using Alain Porier's 855resolution patch
> to enter the correct mode into the chipset's BIOS. The sad thing is that
> I have to do this on every boot - and thus I have to run it before I
> load the vesafb driver. This procedure is undesirable.
> Is there a way similar functionality of this 855resolution patch could
> be integrated into the kernel in some way?
> I think it would be very useful for everyone who is using this chipset
> and is dealing with having to enter modes into the BIOS in similar
> fashions.
>
It would require BIOS calls, and we don't have any facility yet to make
BIOS calls in the kernel.
Tony
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-08 0:55 UTC|newest]
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2006-01-03 18:35 855resolution patch and linux framebuffer Eric Schoeller
2006-01-07 1:26 ` Antonino A. Daplas [this message]
2006-01-09 22:33 ` Eric Schoeller
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