Thanks Mats,
> The VESA lines tell us which moded the graphics cards BIOSs thinks it can
> handle. It has nothing to do with what your monitor can handle.
> In your case it seems like it is the monitor that is setting the limit.
> But if you had a external 1280x1024 monitor it would be the graphics
> card that was setting the limit.
this makes sense.
> I have a couple of laptops with 1280x800 LCD panels but the > VESA
> bios hasn't a mode for it. This is only a problem if you have to use
> a vesa driver.
My X works fine with the native "neomagic" Driver, but only does 800x600;
that's why I was trying VESA, in the false hope that mentioning "1024x768"
during boot somehow implies I could have that resolution.
Thanks again
Jan
