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From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
To: Sasa Ostrouska <casaxa@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VESAFB CUSTOM RESOLUTION
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:44:30 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1184705070.8642.3.camel@daplas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dcf706c60707170713t605ce652r83b5b53f3c315691@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 16:13 +0200, Sasa Ostrouska wrote:
> Hi ,
> 
> I want to ask one question about a custom resolution in the console.
> I have a Sony Vaio Laptop VGN-SZ2VP/X, the screen resolution is
> 1280x800, now I'm using the vga=773 which is an 1024x768 but this is
> ugly as I get a border of about 2-3cm on one the sides of the screen.
> So is there a way that I set the 1280x800 resolution at boot time ?

1280x800 is not a VESA standard, so you have to find out the vendor mode
ID for it.  You can use vbetest to list all modes supported by your
card. Or if you don't have vbetest, use X plus the 'vesa' driver and
look at /var/log/X*.log.

Choose the mode ID number you want, add 0x200 and use that.

Tony



  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-17 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-17 14:13 VESAFB CUSTOM RESOLUTION Sasa Ostrouska
2007-07-17 14:31 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-07-17 14:42 ` Renato S. Yamane
2007-07-17 15:04   ` Sasa Ostrouska
2007-07-18 11:35   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2007-07-17 20:44 ` Antonino A. Daplas [this message]
2007-07-17 21:13   ` Sasa Ostrouska
2007-07-18  1:50 ` Daniel Drake
2007-07-18  6:36   ` Sasa Ostrouska
2007-07-18  9:16     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-18  9:50       ` Sasa Ostrouska
2007-07-18 11:19         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-07-18 10:42 Al Boldi
2007-07-18 12:15 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-07-18 13:45   ` Al Boldi
2007-07-18 14:20     ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-07-18 14:52       ` Al Boldi
2007-07-18 15:07         ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-07-18 17:38           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-18 22:48             ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-07-18 16:59   ` Matan Ziv-Av
2007-07-18 22:43     ` Antonino A. Daplas

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