In parallels I have 1920x... using the vesa driver.
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:09 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@coraid.com> wrote: >> My long-term goal is to eliminate all the vga drivers but vgavesa, >> which make up about 10% of the pc kernel port by line count. This may >> not be possible due to currently-working graphics cards with broken >> vesa bioses nor desirable because the native drivers are vastly faster >> than the vesa driver (though I think we're closing that gap), but it's >> worth attempting. I've used the vesa driver on my usual plan 9 >> terminals and it's hard to see a difference in performance compared >> with the native vga drivers. > > this is a great goal. > > unfortunately, some of the machines i happen to have > have awful performance with the vesa driver. in particular, > a scrolling window on my amd sb600 machine will essentially > lock up the machine. you can't use the mouse to kill the > window. :-(. the nvidia driver (for different hardware > in the same machine) performs much better with a bargin > bin card. > > also, is it possible to support resolutions greater than > 1600x1200x16 with vesa? > > - erik > >
