From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933833AbXGRBwc (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:52:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756935AbXGRBwY (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:52:24 -0400 Received: from smtp131.iad.emailsrvr.com ([207.97.245.131]:48191 "EHLO smtp131.iad.emailsrvr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756479AbXGRBwX (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:52:23 -0400 Message-ID: <469D71FB.5070408@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:50:51 -0400 From: Daniel Drake User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070618) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sasa Ostrouska CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VESAFB CUSTOM RESOLUTION References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sasa Ostrouska wrote: > 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 ? I don't think vesafb can do what you want. However, uvesafb probably can. http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ Daniel