Re: VESA modes

2007-05-21 Thread Jan Stary
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 graphi

Re: VESA modes

2007-05-20 Thread Gordon Willem Klok
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:37:41PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > Do these messages mean that my graphic chip is actually > capable of a "1024x768 24bbp" display? No > If the graphics chip can do 1024x768, is it the case that the > _monitor_ cannot do that? Yes >Is the maximal resolution a property >

Re: VESA modes

2007-05-20 Thread Mats O Jansson
On Sun, 20 May 2007, Jan Stary wrote: > Hi all, > > this comes form a verbose boot of 4.1 on a Dell Latitude LS laptop: > > [...] > vesabios0 at mainbus0: version 2.0, NeoMagic MagicMedia 256 AV > vesabios0: VESA mode 0100: attributes 009f, 640x400 8bbp Packed pixel > vesabios0: VESA mode 0101:

Re: VESA modes

2007-05-20 Thread Jan Stary
Replying to myself, > vesabios0 at mainbus0: version 2.0, NeoMagic MagicMedia 256 AV > vesabios0: VESA mode 0118: attributes 009f, 1024x768 24bbp Direct Color > vga0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Neomagic Magicgraph NM2200" rev 0x20, vesafb > > Do these messages mean that my graphic chip is actually

VESA modes

2007-05-20 Thread Jan Stary
Hi all, this comes form a verbose boot of 4.1 on a Dell Latitude LS laptop: [...] vesabios0 at mainbus0: version 2.0, NeoMagic MagicMedia 256 AV vesabios0: VESA mode 0100: attributes 009f, 640x400 8bbp Packed pixel vesabios0: VESA mode 0101: attributes 009f, 640x480 8bbp Packed pixel vesabios0: V