Am Dienstag, 18. Januar 2005 08:07 schrieb Galanaki, Dimitrios: > I am trying to increase the console resolution on my Thinkpad T41 which has > an ATI mobility radeon card. > > >From what I read the standard step is to add the lines following lines in > > the kernel configuration file: > options VESA > options SC_PIXEL_MODE > However when I run > vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 > I still get that the mode is not supported by the device. > Is there something that I am missing here? Has anyone tried to increase > console resolution on a T41 Thinkpad or even an ATI mobility radeon laptop?
Unfortunately syscons uses 800x600 with 16 colors (4 bit, mode 258) and all ATI cards I know don't support that mode, only 800x600x8 (256 colors, mode 259). You can check your card features with 'vidcontrol -i mode'. I'm no programmer, otherwise I had patched syscons to use mode 0x103 (259) instead of 0x102. Perhaps you are lucky and find somebody who corrects this. ALso, search the archives, some months ago some good guys made syscons use higher resolutions, perhaps they also implemented more sensful mode selection. -Harry > > D. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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