From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934548AbXGQUsd (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:48:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S936319AbXGQUom (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:44:42 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.183]:34961 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934735AbXGQUok (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:44:40 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=IWSBIl/XbXEP+CoZp45wv3DEPxu1+gP5tnMzx7mEn6U9pQYJPeAkkeYVabsdi4GF3/51f4D/8tPpw2qLQ55Aqe2k7CMu9a6n71GfRAFRuMuuq2RTYfi1ZelO0fU8KBcvV7Z4Bdi7EoUm7OQB8u/OHOY8tiiyiLeRX3YcANOjtlk= Subject: Re: VESAFB CUSTOM RESOLUTION From: "Antonino A. Daplas" To: Sasa Ostrouska Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:44:30 +0800 Message-Id: <1184705070.8642.3.camel@daplas> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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