On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 08:46:19AM -0500, Lance Tagliapietra wrote: > On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 02:18:30PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Lance Tagliapietra wrote: > > > I'm trying to use some of the higher resolution video modes of the > > > clgen driver on my EGS Spectrum video card on my A2000. I'm entering > > > the command: > > > > > > "video:clgen:monitorcap:50;100;30;54,mode:med" > > > > > > on the Amiboot command line (which does show up in dmesg) > > > but it still seems to come up in the 640x480 instead of 800x600 > > > according to the documentation I have seen (clgen.txt, included > > > with the Debian m68k distribution). > > > > > > I have read from a WWW search that this functionality may have been > > > disabled in later kernels, and that there may be a patch out there > > > to put this feature back in. Does anyone have this, or suggestions > > > for getting higher resolution? > > > > Which kernel are you using? > > I am using 2.4.26 compiled from the latest m68k cvs sources from the > -rm68k-2_4 branch. It does not seem that this has been updated to > 2.4.27 yet, as I just updated and re-compiled this past Thursday. > > > > > I see no mode named `med' in the 2.4.27-rc4 sources. Please try `800x600' > > instead. > > Thanks for the tip, I'll try it and report back to the group. It > looks like some work will be needed on the clgen.txt then to describe > the change in the mode names.
OK, I tried it out, and 800x600 for the mode name did work on the console. Now to get X to work with the higher resolution. I have not tried out any higher resolution modes yet, but I assume the other one would be called 1024x768 (I'll check the clgen.c, no need to reply here. Thanks, --Lance
